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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 29, 2018 17:19:39 GMT 12
CONCERNS OVER HOW NZ HISTORY IS TAUGHT: 'YOU MĀORI ARE LUCKY'A teacher in Whanganui says she was shocked when she heard another teacher tell his class that Māori were lucky the British didn't wipe them out. Riria Henry was in her final placement for teachers training in 2011, when she says she sat in on a social studies class, of mostly Māori students. But the Treaty of Waitangi lesson left her speechless. "So he was walking around with a cricket bat - he was a coach of cricket and he had a big bat that he walked around with," she said. "He said 'you Māori are lucky that the British soldiers were too busy colonising other areas and did not just choose to focus on New Zealand at the time. "Otherwise your people would have been wiped out.".... www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/362800/concerns-over-how-nz-history-is-taught-you-maori-are-lucky
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