@Cassie Blake: “HINT: “Tomorrows Schools” was a policy introduced a long time before anyone heard of “Neo Liberals”.”

That’s not so; Tomorrow’s schools was a policy change introduced by the Lange government in 1988. In case you’ve forgotten or didn’t know, the Lange government introduced the unfortunate citizens of New Zealand to the dubious delights of the neoliberal project when it came to power in the snap election of 1984.

HINT: “Tomorrows Schools” was a policy introduced a long time before anyone heard of “Neo Liberals”.
But Neo Liberals are the ones changing life for the worse. They want future generations to grow up unable to question/ reason & think for themselves so as to be perfect worker/drones. Hence “Tomorrows Schools” which is their ideology.”
Neo Liberal ” represents the wealthy & privileged . They push their (false ) ideology to promote their own interests.
Actually Neo Liberals (misnomer) = the Ruling Class today. It is actually Authoritarian. It is oppression of the working class, by ensnaring them in more & more rules/ statutes/ fines that makes life increasingly harder whilst they themselves are not affected..
Meanwhile, of course private schools still provide a better quality education= more choices in life and so the social inequality gap is maintained and further enhanced. This is NZ today.

It makes perfect sense that Poverty DIRECTLY affects learning outcomes, because
Parents who are STRESSED
with trying to survive financially, HOW can they possibly have the energy left to devote time to ALSO teaching tables & reading to their kids?- that which was once and should STILL be the domain of schools

“Tomorrows Schools” FALSE IDEOLOGY is SOLEY responsible for the drastic decline in maths & literacy standards witnessed today.

YES , because as well as abovementioned changes
schools were also transformed into “businesses” , which meant that SUDDENLY tons of bureaucratic stuff/ paperwork to take up teachers time.

SUMMARY: “Tomorrows Schools” = a fraudulent DESTRUCTIVE policy & TOTAL FAILURE.
(John Key, who is a a False Leader, of course wants to throw lots more money into it , to maintain the illusion . John Key himself cares about Nothing except 1)His own financial status 2)His own kids who go to private boarding schools overseas.

Interesting how you equate poverty with lack of parental love?

I wonder how many millionaires who suddenly found themselves bankrupt in 1987, following the sharemarket crash, and living on the dole, lost their love for their children?

So obviously, the amount of love a person has for their off-spring is measureable, quantifiable, and has a per-cuddle dollar value?

If this sounds ludicrous to you, RandomTperson, there may still be a modicum of sanity left for you.

So how do you suppose people pay rent and buy food with “love and support”?

I didnt know what “love and support” was a currency that is accepted by utility companies and the like?

Love and support is useless with out a stable place to live and food in your belly.

Private schools entrench privileges, separates us from each other. Why should we be paying for the private schools building programme and running costs. I say use this year- Charitable status is under review this year!

A large proportion of children born into disadvantaged families also do not enjoy high levels of parental love and support. Parental love and support are far better determinants of good outcomes than money is.