Drones not Citizens – National burn NCEA down to re-install education system designed to fail students

National’s education revolution isn’t really about helping children learn better. It’s about rebuilding a harsher, more competitive system that sorts kids earlier, ranks them publicly and feeds business the compliant workforce it wants. The replacement of NCEA is being sold as “clarity”, but underneath the branding exercise is an ideological war over what education is actually for.

Government confirms NCEA replacement details

The government has confirmed the NCEA replacement will bring a new grading scale, compulsory subjects, and assessment requirements.

– Advertisement –

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Education Minister Erica Stanford made the announcement in Orewa, North Auckland today.

In March, the government confirmed that NCEA would be replaced by a new subject-based qualification over two years

The new qualification will be the New Zealand Certificate of Education (NZCE) at Year 12 and the New Zealand Advanced Certificate of Education (NZACE) at Year 13.

Luxon said in his speech that the current NCEA qualification was “hard to navigate”.

“It doesn’t give our kids and our prospective employers a clear indication of how that student has gone at school mastering the material.”

RNZ

The Right want unquestioning worker drones, they don’t want citizens.

Unquestioning worker drones fit into the cogs bosses want, citizens however vote which is the very last thing the bosses and Right want.

National are burning NCEA down to re-install an education system designed to fail students, because rich parents want to know if their child is beating your child.

Time and time and time again the NZ Left underestimate how radical and damaging this Government truly want to be when it comes to public services and the ideological assault on them.

When David Seymour launched Charter Schools, he said it was his hope that 80% of schools became Charter Schools.

That is a f**king vision and a half!

Erica has sourced her advisors from neoliberal think tanks promoting a racist education agenda to rob Māori of identity while stripping out any sense of the individual.

This is an open attack on creating free thinking citizens to producing worker drones.

National wants competition back in the classroom

Erica’s new curriculum, influenced by the far right, is setting schools up to fail.

Look at the interests that are winning here…

…National know they can get away with this because of the immense frustration many parents feel towards the public education system.

There is a real sense that our kids are not getting ahead educationally and that school has morphed into a baby sitting for our kids feelings.

Gen X’ers and Boomers grew up in an educational philosophy that stated ‘be the best you can be’. The idea was you were in a constant competition with yourself to perform with personal excellence in the field you did best in, (It unfortunately also used bell curve graph ruthlessness that ensured 50% failed regardless of whether they actually passed. That created generations of lost potential).

Instead of reform the bell curve mentality, we went completely the other way.

Millennials and under were brought up in an educational philosophy of ‘everyone is special’.

You can quickly see the problem.

Schools seem to have been given carte blanche to define educational achievement as they like with the most important factor being the feelings of the child.

It seems to have produced a brittle generation who require constant nurturing and cuddles rather than stoic self reliance and independence of critical thinking agency.

Public Education has to be a public good that benefits all students rather than set them up to fail.

That starts with better resourcing of public education so that it can educationally upskill as well as provide emotional well being.

Teachers deserve 4-day weeks, plus more pay, plus extra resources, plus a teacher’s aid in each class, plus provide bonded scholarships with accommodation for new teachers!

Teachers work miracles with our kids and I’m still in awe of what New Zealand teachers can achieve with the little they have.

Too often our teachers are being left to clean up the inequality that the Government generates and all they are doing is teaching basic socialisation skills to children driven feral from poverty.

There are few silver bullets in social policy, education is one of them.

Public education should build citizens, not worker drones

We need to nurture an education environment that respects Teachers and resources them properly because our Schools are central hubs within our community that can and must be utilised and supported more.

Schools need to be used after hours for adult education classes that we should be funding.

Schools should be used to create gardens and farms for local food security and to use in free breakfasts and lunches.

We need to use our schools as entry points for counsellors and social services for the wider community.

We need to fully fully fully fund our public education rather than inject false competition models or new bureaucratic structures and we need to ensure a central curriculum of maths, science, physical education and critical thinking are providing the tools for our kids to learn.

That takes far more money and it takes a Government with the courage to tax the fucking rich more so that excellent public education continues to be the egalitarian pillar of New Zealand!

What we are instead getting from the Right is a system designed for the interests of private education, not NZ citizens.