Mike Hosking interviewed (1.25) Raewyn Tipene this morning. She has one of the contracts to establish a charter school in the North and already has a track record of success with Maori children. Hosking asked how she felt about the PPTA response to charter schools and she said she hadn't read their releases having been forewarned by her admin manager that they are "bullying and threatening." That's the exact culture this school wants to avoid. Asked how she felt about the possibility Labour would close them if they win the election next year she was stoic. She said that Maori could not afford to live in fear of what might happen. She's quite an inspiration.
So this is a whole new ball game. The Left aggressively attacking initiatives aimed at improving the prospects of Maori children. Even threatening to isolate and ostracise them by, for instance , not playing sport with them. Pathetic.
I wonder what Shane Jones makes of it?
When a child is born
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At the end of the day, it is the PPTA which will be ostracised but they can't see it coming.
Adolf has his finger on it with the point that this is actually about breaking unions - well, that and privatisation of the education system. Of course the left are attacking those things - the fact that a Maori is involved is irrelevant.
3 of the 5 schools are Maori. And more than half of the applications were from Maori/Pacific people. If Labour (backing the union) want to reclaim Maori votes this attack is hardly irrelevant.
PM this is only about breaking unions because the unions have made it that way.
If the unions were relevant and provided something teachers valued then there is no reason why Charter School teachers wouldn't join.
But then again unions are about bullying rather than choice...
As an ex-teacher I certainly hope that the teacher unions are sidelined, the education system belongs to the people and isn't there to make life easy for teachers but for the children. I wonder if the NZEI and the PPTa will realise this in time.
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