3 x ARTICLES - Colonial history, History in the UK

[Kiwi Frontline]

MĀORI, COLONIAL HISTORY SHOULD BE COMPULSORY - NATIONAL PARTY LEADER SIMON BRIDGES

The National Party thinks schools should have a compulsory course that teaches students about Māori and colonial history.

This comes after the History Teachers' Association called for a compulsory New Zealand history curriculum, labelling current teaching and general knowledge of the subject "shameful".

National Party leader Simon Bridges told RNZ's Waitangi Day programme he supports a compulsory programme - as long as what is taught is impartial......

www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/381868/maori-colonial-history-should-be-compulsory-national-party-leader-simon-bridges

[Kiwi Frontline]

'PROPAGANDA': SEAN PLUNKET SLAMS 'BIASED' COMPULSORY MĀORI HISTORY CALLS

Magic Talk host Sean Plunket warns making colonial history compulsory will turn lessons into "a propaganda exercise for the radicals and the separatists".

The debate over the compulsory teaching of New Zealand's Māori-Crown relationshiphas hit the headlines recently.

But Plunket warns there's "a lot of BS in history" and says it's the version we learn that is important.

"Are you like me, just a little bit worried that if we leave it to the lefty teachers, the version of history we get taught will be a little bit biased, a little bit one-sided," he told listeners on Tuesday.

"I don't want to learn a bunch of propaganda that says the Treaty is a fraud, whities go home, I've been oppressed."....

www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/02/propaganda-sean-plunket-slams-biased-compulsory-maori-history-calls.html

[Kiwi Frontline]

NZ HISTORY IN THE UK

"A friend who taught history in the UK showed me what some 11-year-old students in the UK are being taught about the Treaty of Waitangi," explains a reader. "In less than a page this [highly inaccurate, myth perpetuating, bloody offensive] excerpt from a current history textbook Industry Reform and Empire — Britain 1750 -1900 by A Wilkes."

www.nzherald.co.nz/sideswipe/news/article.cfm?c_id=702&objectid=12201199


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