Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 30, 2019 4:54:29 GMT 12
Northland Age 30/5/19
STOP PRETENDING
Maori Television reports that the NZ Maori Council is intending to campaign for better care for part-Maori children “in our homes and communities.” And that is a little encouraging. It is a little less encouraging to note that the NZMC executive director twice mentions “the system” as needing to be addressed.
Nonetheless, he at least, quite surprisingly, acknowledges the outrageous statistics for part-Maori children in state care and in Youth Court appearances, and for part-Maori adults in prisons. Perhaps someone is beginning to take some notice of us who have had our voices suppressed when we’ve tried to point out the foolishness of part-Maori parents and/or groups promoting “language strategies and programmes based on traditional and modern Maori learning and teaching methodologies.”
The time is well past for part-Maori to stop pretending that Maori language and/ or culture is going to serve them well in the world. Teaching that to children is another form of child abuse.
Part-Maori parents will serve their children best by enrolling them in state schools, where they will mix with all sorts of children, including part-Maori, and where they will be educated by trained teachers, including part-Maori, and where they will learn the English language and literature, the mathematics, the chemistry, the physics and the philosophy that have produced physicians, statesmen, engineers, nurses, law-makers, missionaries et al, part-Maori amongst them.
And part-Maori parents will serve their children well by ensuring that they apply themselves at school, studying and learning, completing their homework and other assignments punctually. And part-Maori parents will serve their children well by ensuring that they have respect for others, particularly adults and persons of authority such as police, and that they have respect for property.
We are all British citizens, with the freedoms and the untold benefits that accrue from that. Maori might well enjoy practising their customs and speaking/ teaching their language in their homes, as do other ethnicities. Outside our homes, let’s enjoy the government system, the education system, the bureaucracy, the judicial system that has proven to be the equal of any in the history of the world.
LEO LEITCH Taupo
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STOP PRETENDING
Maori Television reports that the NZ Maori Council is intending to campaign for better care for part-Maori children “in our homes and communities.” And that is a little encouraging. It is a little less encouraging to note that the NZMC executive director twice mentions “the system” as needing to be addressed.
Nonetheless, he at least, quite surprisingly, acknowledges the outrageous statistics for part-Maori children in state care and in Youth Court appearances, and for part-Maori adults in prisons. Perhaps someone is beginning to take some notice of us who have had our voices suppressed when we’ve tried to point out the foolishness of part-Maori parents and/or groups promoting “language strategies and programmes based on traditional and modern Maori learning and teaching methodologies.”
The time is well past for part-Maori to stop pretending that Maori language and/ or culture is going to serve them well in the world. Teaching that to children is another form of child abuse.
Part-Maori parents will serve their children best by enrolling them in state schools, where they will mix with all sorts of children, including part-Maori, and where they will be educated by trained teachers, including part-Maori, and where they will learn the English language and literature, the mathematics, the chemistry, the physics and the philosophy that have produced physicians, statesmen, engineers, nurses, law-makers, missionaries et al, part-Maori amongst them.
And part-Maori parents will serve their children well by ensuring that they apply themselves at school, studying and learning, completing their homework and other assignments punctually. And part-Maori parents will serve their children well by ensuring that they have respect for others, particularly adults and persons of authority such as police, and that they have respect for property.
We are all British citizens, with the freedoms and the untold benefits that accrue from that. Maori might well enjoy practising their customs and speaking/ teaching their language in their homes, as do other ethnicities. Outside our homes, let’s enjoy the government system, the education system, the bureaucracy, the judicial system that has proven to be the equal of any in the history of the world.
LEO LEITCH Taupo
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers