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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 30, 2018 17:11:42 GMT 12
PLANNED CLOSURES OF CHARTER SCHOOLS PROMPT DEBATE ABOUT MĀORI SELF-DETERMINATIONThe New Zealand government’s move to close charter schools as part of its education reform has prompted strong Māori criticism. Māori educators Sir Toby Curtis and Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi have filed a Waitangi Tribunal claim, arguing that the failure to involve Māori, and consider Māori interests, breaches the Crown’s obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi. They say that the school closures would disproportionately affect Māori. Six of the 11 charter schools have predominantly Māori rolls. The debate is bigger than public versus private education, which is how the government sees it. It is more a matter of the meaning of Māori citizenship, and whether citizenship has evolved from the subjecthood Māori were granted under the treaty in 1840. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions … in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning...... www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/106697887/planned-closures-of-charter-schools-prompt-debate-about-mori-selfdetermination
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