Nikki Kaye – The Minister for Spying on Children
Nikki Kaye – The Minister for Spying on Children
Look, folks, I don’t want to sound critical – lordy no not I, but isn’t the obviousness of what’s behind dumping the Decile system really, really, really scary and could lead to such extreme surveillance of the individual that the Decile system is preferable because it won’t damage the vulnerable kids it’s aimed at?
And aren’t the list of pre-factors that they wish to brand on invisible vulnerable kids creepy and judgemental as hell? Parental criminal history, ethnicity, refugees, Mother’s average income, how old Mother was when child was born and whether the caregiver is not the biological father.
Is owning a bible in that list?
Personalising the funding requirements as intimately as this is the realisation of Big Data mining Government Agencies are now generating. It means there is a level of mass surveillance scrutiny by the state on those kids that is far beyond anything that should be allowed.
Like the Eye of Mordor sitting on their shoulder.
The point of this ultimately of course is to slash funding to schools. The Government’s right wing mantra is to fund the most needy rather than funding universal provision of social services. This is how National are ideologically dismantling the States obligations to only fund the ‘truly’ poor as opposed to the really poor.
The Decile system is far from perfect, we all know that, but allowing National to invisibly brand kids and subject them to intense state agency attention in the hopes they can cut back on universal provision of social services is pretty ugly.
This is a really bad idea.
I fully agree. As a cynical, old, semi-retired teacher, I feel it in my bones that Govt will cynically use this as a means of cost-cutting: instead of the school getting a relatively secure income from a publicised Decile rating, individual students will be clandestinely rated as ‘at risk of being in need’ or whatever – is it not obvious that a penny-pinching Govt will cause fewer students over time to be rated as such? And the Ministry now seems to be there to co-operate with such Govt.s and cover their backsides. I believe this will lead to further under-funding.
Totally. The management style of Sir Peter Blake (Rip) was totally design focused. The over arching focuses was that the crew of sailors had to like the boat they worked. And that information had to be passed through industry professionals that the Crew (Including Sir Peter Blake and the management team, all sailors) all that information had to be passed through industry professionals that ETNZ/TNZ respected. The first thing the crew agreed on was to get rip of the controversy because in previous challenges TNZ had been knocked out of the Louis Vuitton cup through penalties incurred via design flaws. What we have here in current government dogma is not design focussed.
I’v used the design focused approach of Sir Peter Blake because it worked and had a dramatic effect in the aesthetics of down town Auckland and kept kiwi boat builders employed for over 27 years. Long may that continue. With out a doubt, the design focus approach works. Current government dogma does not except for the lucky few that managed to work next to NOVA pay.
Increasing the deep dark surveillance state of course Martyn.
Simply it is their slimy way of expanding “Intelligence gathering”.
This is a really bad idea alright.