Labour criticises the government's push to reintroduce standardised testing in schools, arguing it undermines student wellbeing, cuts vital support programmes, and reflects a lack of evidence-based, teacher-informed education policy.
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that so then I look at the teachers and go hold on a minute when you start just making this about Te Tiriti or the treaty you're not being specific enough telling me what's wrong with these changes as a parent and all I hear is so when he got into the there's a problem here about mental health physical health what you eat that it's all connected then I go okay I get it so so if you if they could be if they could get the specificity right about what they think is wrong with Erica Stanford's changes and take the this is a national minister out the picture and start exactly because that's just one figure I'll give you I mean I think it's 74% of most kids come out of school with NCEA level one and two under the NCEA system only 58% of Maori kids did So why is that? And I don't think that's because they haven't mentioned the treaty enough. I think there's a massive problem there in the system. So how the hell are we going to solve that? So for God's sake, get your heads together, stop politicising it both sides and find out specifically what you don't like about the changes.
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education reforms serve ideological agendas over academic soundness
Elizabeth Rata Has Been Made A Dame – Is this a joke?unethical, short-term, driven by ideology
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