The Labour Party has announced a policy to cancel mandatory primary school testing, including the government's 'Smart Tool', citing concerns over testing overload and teacher autonomy, while education minister Erica Stanford defends the assessment tool as a low-stakes, effective,
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Now the latter is of increasing importance in recent years because one, the previous Labour government spent all the money and then some, and two, we still have no money, and therefore simply dreaming up ideas with no bills attached is no longer acceptable to most voters. Or is it? And that's my other great conundrum at the moment in this current election year. Can a party who might well be government promise something with an 11 billion dollar price tag not explain where the money comes from, but gets away with it anyway, given the punter isn't really that interested. Polling might help. But that's another conundrum I've got. Do I trust polling? No, I don't. The participation rate is now so ropey. People, to my mind, when they do find them to talk, actually tell Polsters anything. If what Labour have produced so far in terms of ideas, lack of dollars and general calamity was accurately measured, you might see a drop in support, or not. But if you trusted polls, at least you could get a gauge as to what's going on. Upshot, though, is this lot under Chris Hipkins, seem to have learned nothing. There is not a lot of coordinated well-honed or slick anything about this. For those waiting, uh, it would appear to be a disappointment, a haphazard sort of piecemeal kind of effort, that after all this wait and see they've been playing, turns out to be the same old group of sloppy thinkers and lazy operators. Hoping the government would fail was their best chance, given when they're forced to sell themselves to you, they look like a year eight school project and not a particularly good one.
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