Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 2, 2016 17:13:38 GMT 12
MARAMA FOX: SON DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AT SCHOOL
Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox has spoken about discrimination her son suffered at school - saying she demanded a change in teacher after one called him a “predator”.
The mother of nine said one of her sons had been labelled by a long-term reliever teacher when he was in Year 11. The teacher had wrongly assumed he had stolen from another student’s bag.
“I asked how he was doing. I get told...’your son is a predator’. I’m like, excuse me? ‘The young little boy who sits next to him in class is so scared of your son he will not even look at him. I watched your son steal things from his bag.’”
Ms Fox sought an explanation from her son.
“[He] said to me, ‘Mum, we were playing touch at lunch time, I put my stuff in my mate’s bag, he’s on his way to class.
“I came in late from playing touch...instead of disturbing the class that’s already working, I just grab my books, sit down’.”
When her son sat down next to his friend, the other teenager did not look up. Seeing this, the teacher assumed he had been intimidated, Ms Fox said….
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/marama-fox-son-discriminated-against-at-school/
Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox has spoken about discrimination her son suffered at school - saying she demanded a change in teacher after one called him a “predator”.
The mother of nine said one of her sons had been labelled by a long-term reliever teacher when he was in Year 11. The teacher had wrongly assumed he had stolen from another student’s bag.
“I asked how he was doing. I get told...’your son is a predator’. I’m like, excuse me? ‘The young little boy who sits next to him in class is so scared of your son he will not even look at him. I watched your son steal things from his bag.’”
Ms Fox sought an explanation from her son.
“[He] said to me, ‘Mum, we were playing touch at lunch time, I put my stuff in my mate’s bag, he’s on his way to class.
“I came in late from playing touch...instead of disturbing the class that’s already working, I just grab my books, sit down’.”
When her son sat down next to his friend, the other teenager did not look up. Seeing this, the teacher assumed he had been intimidated, Ms Fox said….
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/marama-fox-son-discriminated-against-at-school/