Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 21, 2021 11:03:32 GMT 12
Hugh Perrett: OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIME MINISTER
Open letter to Government and the Prime Minister on the Mandatory teaching and learning of Maori and other major “Maorification” related agenda issues.
Prime Minister, I must take strong issue with Government’s well publicised agenda and action to make the teaching and learning of Maori language mandatory in our schools and the learning/speaking of Maori a precondition to working for the Government Service (arguably to facilitate “stacking” the Public Service with activists keen to reinforce and support Government’s Maorification agendas).
Latin has recently been deleted from school syllabuses because it no longer has utility as a language and would therefore be wasting some 15/20percent of time available to students for educational options much more relevant, useful and beneficial to their future lives.
Surely this too is true of Maori, a language spoken/used by very few, including relatively few to very few Maori. “Maori” is without significant utility in New Zealand and is TOTALLY WITHOUT UTILITY internationally. If individuals choose to learn Maori outside of the formal education system, fine, over to them, but to make Maori mandatory is, as with Latin, a total waste of the all too limited time available for our children‘s education, which would, as already noted, be much better spent on subject options much more relevant, useful and valuable to our children’s futures.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/10/hugh-perrett-open-letter-to-government.html
Open letter to Government and the Prime Minister on the Mandatory teaching and learning of Maori and other major “Maorification” related agenda issues.
Prime Minister, I must take strong issue with Government’s well publicised agenda and action to make the teaching and learning of Maori language mandatory in our schools and the learning/speaking of Maori a precondition to working for the Government Service (arguably to facilitate “stacking” the Public Service with activists keen to reinforce and support Government’s Maorification agendas).
Latin has recently been deleted from school syllabuses because it no longer has utility as a language and would therefore be wasting some 15/20percent of time available to students for educational options much more relevant, useful and beneficial to their future lives.
Surely this too is true of Maori, a language spoken/used by very few, including relatively few to very few Maori. “Maori” is without significant utility in New Zealand and is TOTALLY WITHOUT UTILITY internationally. If individuals choose to learn Maori outside of the formal education system, fine, over to them, but to make Maori mandatory is, as with Latin, a total waste of the all too limited time available for our children‘s education, which would, as already noted, be much better spent on subject options much more relevant, useful and valuable to our children’s futures.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/10/hugh-perrett-open-letter-to-government.html