Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 21, 2019 17:13:24 GMT 12
PETITION FOR COMPULSORY HISTORY CLASSES PRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT
An online petition calling for the teaching of history in all New Zealand schools has been presented in parliament.
The petition posted on the New Zealand Parliament website by Graeme Ball from the New Zealand History Teachers' Association is requesting the House of Representatives pass legislation that would make compulsory 'the coherent teaching’ of history in schools.
Attracting over 3600 signatures, the petition argues that ‘too few New Zealanders have a sound understanding of what brought the Crown and Māori together in the 1840 Treaty, or of how the relationship played out over the following decades’.....
nz.educationhq.com/news/60612/petition-for-compulsory-history-classes-presented-to-parliament/
An online petition calling for the teaching of history in all New Zealand schools has been presented in parliament.
The petition posted on the New Zealand Parliament website by Graeme Ball from the New Zealand History Teachers' Association is requesting the House of Representatives pass legislation that would make compulsory 'the coherent teaching’ of history in schools.
Attracting over 3600 signatures, the petition argues that ‘too few New Zealanders have a sound understanding of what brought the Crown and Māori together in the 1840 Treaty, or of how the relationship played out over the following decades’.....
nz.educationhq.com/news/60612/petition-for-compulsory-history-classes-presented-to-parliament/