Effective Education for New Zealand Children
There urgently needs to be a complete re-think about effective education and New Zealand educational policy, which is simply not fit for purpose in a number of important aspects. In the first place, the amount of unnecessary paperwork mandated by the bureaucrats undermines effective education, and means that teachers are burdened with so much tiresome admin that they don’t actually have the time to teach properly. When they do, the national curriculum is so badly distorted by politically correct misconceptions that the old-fashioned common-sense methods, which stood us in good stead in the old days, are no longer available to instil basic numeracy and literacy.
Fortress New Zealand points out that our pupils are not being educated for the future world which they will inherit. There has to be a realistic assessment of where society is going; then the curriculum needs to be designed to provide the skills and knowledge for that future experience. It’s no good pretending that the world is simply going to carry on as before. Sooner or later, communities will almost certainly decide to take schools out of the control of central government, and take responsibility for their children’s future well-being into their own hands.