ACE Campbell

Our children’s education is paramount to our success as a country. We are currently seeing pushback from local primary and secondary school boards of trustees against the Government’s directive to remove Treaty requirements in schools.

The Government’s position is; It hasn’t worked since Labour installed it, our education has gone backwards, our number one priority for boards is to get our kids to school and educate them properly.  

We are in such a poor state when it comes to attendance and academic achievement, it is very hard to align ourselves with other first world countries.

There is a mindset in this country that the first priority is to “die on a hill over race” as opposed to educating our kids properly, hence these boards telling the Government to naff-off.

The first conversation we should be having is about our kid’s future and their ability to access higher paying jobs.  

Similar countries like Ireland, Australia and Singapore to name a few have invested in education to enable their countries to flourish, while our horizon is a viewing point for third world status.

My step-daughter came home devastated after being indoctrinated with a Mihingarangi Forbes’ documentary funded by RNZ called NZ Wars showing a British soldier shooting a Māori woman through her baby on her back, we then discussed our terrorist training chameleon, Tame Iti, being held up by her teacher as an example of “mana”.

In her own time, she researched the government grants accessed by Mr Iti to re-spin his reputation.  

She used this to gain a critical analysis of the falsehoods that were being presented at school and it strengthened her as a person, no doubt she would be one of very few who gained this understanding of politicalisation.

Parents should be pushing BOT’S hard, to focus on the standards to have our children educated to reach the highest possible level.  

A math teacher confided, that she wouldn’t be teaching in secondary when the tsunami of maths illiterate students hit their classrooms in two years’ time.

Our school boards have to be focused on their core challenges and tasks, to hold the leadership team accountable for delivering attendance and academic achievement.  

Therefore, one has to ask how close is the handshake between teacher unions and boards?  

Recent headlines have focused on the Labour-appointed Police Chief, Andrew Coster, and the appalling eventualities during Labour’s watch, do we want our kids, our future, to be casually cast aside through the misdirection of this political ideology, bent on creating polarisation.