Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 31, 2020 2:31:13 GMT 12
ŌTŪMOETAI PRIMARY SCHOOL TO APOLOGISE TO HAPŪ FOR HISTORIC 'EUROPEAN ONLY' DECISION
Ōtūmoetai Primary School principals will today apologise to a local hapū for a historic decision which saw it become a 'European only' school eight decades ago.
The apology will be made at a school assembly today in the presence of two kuia who attended the school at the time of the decision.
In April 1938 Pākehā parents sent a petition to the Ōtūmoetai School Committee asking for all 42 Māori children at the primary school to be moved to Bethlehem Native School......
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/education/otumoetai-primary-school-to-apologise-to-hapu-for-historic-european-only-decision/A7YZ3UH62OZRNZB7SCEM4NDESQ/
Ōtūmoetai Primary School principals will today apologise to a local hapū for a historic decision which saw it become a 'European only' school eight decades ago.
The apology will be made at a school assembly today in the presence of two kuia who attended the school at the time of the decision.
In April 1938 Pākehā parents sent a petition to the Ōtūmoetai School Committee asking for all 42 Māori children at the primary school to be moved to Bethlehem Native School......
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/education/otumoetai-primary-school-to-apologise-to-hapu-for-historic-european-only-decision/A7YZ3UH62OZRNZB7SCEM4NDESQ/