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Ladies & gents, runaway production politics has spilled over to NZ.
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A very good sign. Some pupils are smarter than we think. Come to think of it, some pupils are smarter than Minister Tolley thinks.
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If National Standards are actually a tool to crush the NZEI/PPTA, why doesn't Minister Tolley just say so? And as I previously mentioned, teachers are heartily sick of social work and warden duty foisted on them.
The education wars are but one symptom of the privatised class system malaise. One possible solution could be a refinement of compulsory busing, but history lessons have to be learnt though. It went wrong in America because of a fatal weakness - it only applied to public schools, and hence a lot of leafy suburban parents simply re-enrolled their kids into private.
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Keith:
It makes a mockery of the idea of governance by an informed citizenry, and it has turned politics into the circus of bullshit that it is today.
Brought to you by the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Plenty.
Fletcher:
This morning on TV1 or National Radio(I forget which) Anne Tolley said (paraphrasing) that teachers wishing to address class size issues need to take it up wither their school board, as the ministry already assess secondary teacher funding on a class size of 17 pupils and if teachers were teaching classes of 30 or more it was because of local decisions....
2 + 2 = 5.
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How much of the inflation drop is actually thinly-veiled deflation?
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The impression I'm getting is that most of their gripe relates to class sizes and NCEA workload rather than rates of pay.
And we haven't discussed disruptive pupils yet either. Today's teachers are forced to double as social workers and wardens, and one can understand why they're brassed off.
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The painful revisting of a test driven education system,1970's style , flies in the face of what we now know about children.
In Japan it's called 'shiken jigoku'. And add 'gakushu juku' to the mix...
And if it's anything to go by, APN doesn't even have, or need, the editorial interference of Rupert Murdoch or Conrad Black to sound like them.
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And there was a time when wage freezes were directly imposed by the state, as in Muldoon's and Nixon's day. Now, Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt (TM) achieves the same purpose.
A lot of workers receive a benefit as a top-up to their income, but not many seem to defferentiate between the outrightly unemployed and the working poor; they're often tarred with the same brush.
Keith:
Not consuming because you've been fired doesn't really help our debt situation.
I forget who said it, but a certain head of state reputedly said, "People with full bellies don't make revolutions."
Is anyone else here thinking, "Ministry of Plenty"?
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I am mildly amused/rather more than mildly depressed by people who deliberately set out to cause offence and start complaining about the "PC brigade" oppressing them with words of complaint and comparing them to the Gestapo! Why, they might poke them with soft cushions and even put them in the comfy chair next! Hyperbole though, is another topic.. but an allied one, perhaps.
What's even funnier is seeing them go nuclear when their own blowtorch is used against them, or otherwise cornered like rats. To name just one example.
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Has anyone also noticed John Roughan has been rather "lalalalala, I can't hear you" lately about 'Red Len' taking the mayoral chains? Judging by his advertorials in the lead-up, he was tacitly in favour of Banksie.