Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 18, 2023 8:33:00 GMT 12
Damien Grant: THE FAILURE OF NEW ZEALAND'S TEACHERS
If those six years were not enough, a prospective teacher must be assessed by the Teaching Council as being of good character and demonstrate that they adhere to six standards. You will not be surprised to learn that the first standard is to “Demonstrate commitment to tangata whenuatanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership in Aotearoa New Zealand”.
Tangata Whenuatanga is an imprecise term that the Teaching Council describes as “Affirming Māori learners as Māori. Providing contexts for learning where the language, identity and culture of Māori learners and their whānau is affirmed.”
This is fine, I guess, but it is the second part of the standard that is tricky. Does the Treaty create a partnership? This is a political question for which decent and honourable people can and do disagree. Like many who have waded into this area of enquiry, I do not believe that a partnership was created in 1840.
I might be wrong, of course, many people smarter than me think otherwise. It is the nature of politics in a free society that we can hold different views, debate the issue, and go back to work. Our right to hold such perspectives is written into clause 13 of the Bill of Rights; “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief, including the right to adopt and to hold opinions without interference.”
Everyone except teachers, obviously.
Why, you may wonder, is it necessary for someone who wishes to teach maths to teenagers to hold a politically correct interpretation of a document signed in 1840? The ideological capture of the profession is not limited to this most important of the six principles.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/damien-grant-failure-of-new-zealands.html
If those six years were not enough, a prospective teacher must be assessed by the Teaching Council as being of good character and demonstrate that they adhere to six standards. You will not be surprised to learn that the first standard is to “Demonstrate commitment to tangata whenuatanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership in Aotearoa New Zealand”.
Tangata Whenuatanga is an imprecise term that the Teaching Council describes as “Affirming Māori learners as Māori. Providing contexts for learning where the language, identity and culture of Māori learners and their whānau is affirmed.”
This is fine, I guess, but it is the second part of the standard that is tricky. Does the Treaty create a partnership? This is a political question for which decent and honourable people can and do disagree. Like many who have waded into this area of enquiry, I do not believe that a partnership was created in 1840.
I might be wrong, of course, many people smarter than me think otherwise. It is the nature of politics in a free society that we can hold different views, debate the issue, and go back to work. Our right to hold such perspectives is written into clause 13 of the Bill of Rights; “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief, including the right to adopt and to hold opinions without interference.”
Everyone except teachers, obviously.
Why, you may wonder, is it necessary for someone who wishes to teach maths to teenagers to hold a politically correct interpretation of a document signed in 1840? The ideological capture of the profession is not limited to this most important of the six principles.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/damien-grant-failure-of-new-zealands.html