Karen Chhour hiding Boot Camp numbers to protect kids is hilarious
Children’s Minister Karen Chhour won’t say how many still in government’s bootcamps
The Children’s Minister won’t confirm how many participants remain in the government’s highly-scrutinised bootcamps.
Karen Chhour maintains the privacy of the children involved in the Military Style Academies (MSA) is “more important” than it being used as a political football.
Chhour appeared in the Social Services Committee Scrutiny Week hearing on Tuesday morning, along with officials from Oranga Tamariki.
Labour’s Willow-Jean Prime asked how many young people were currently in the latest MSA, but Chhour said she wouldn’t be answering questions about young people in the programme.
She referenced a Written Parliamentary Question (WPQ) sent to Prime last month that acknowledged 10 young people “commenced” the second MSA, which is currently underway.
The WPQ reiterated the position that it wasn’t in the public interest to provide the information regarding how many had left since the programme began.
This is unbelievable, how dare the Minister claim privacy of the children involved in the Military Style Academies (MSA) is “more important” than it being used as a political football!
THAT IS THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF HER STUPID BOOT CAMPS! TO BE A POLITICAL FOOTBALL!
Look, it doesn’t matter if abused children are being more abused by the State, it doesn’t ‘t even matter if the programme is a total failure because entire point of these military boot comps is those 3 words – military, boot, camp!
The rednecks that ACT appeal to want punishment!
Their hate of crime (thanks to wall to wall media click bait crime porn) gets them aroused to think of the shiity kids they despise getting yelled at inside a military boot camp.
For the Minister to clutch her pearls and proclaim the children shouldn’t be used as a political football when that is the entire purpose of this bullshit is as amusing as it is deceitful.
ACT care about sating their redneck voters, kids in prison are collateral damage to that.
Send 10 of the female ministers to the boot camp for retraining on being young and living in poverty .Start with chour ,willis ,upston and stanford .Also train them on being an underpaid mum in the work force .
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