The education disaster of the last six years must be more than reversed. This election, education must be a massive priority as it affects every New Zealander. The future prosperity and social cohesion of our country significantly depend on our education system. Which political party can come up with the best policy to enhance our parenting?
When I asked the former principal of St Paul’s, Ponsonby (Kieran Fouhy) what the key steps were to bringing about the remarkable improvement in outcomes for the school he said, “Firstly, enrol the family.” Parenting needs great emphasis and support and parents need to be respected, including their views on content, and encouraged to contribute and participate. This is after going through a system that has been funded for 13,200 hours for each of them up until the end of Year 11.īeing a good/great parent has always been challenging but, in a fragmented and social media-influenced society, the pressures are intensified. We have 24 per cent of our Māori students leaving school with less than Level 1 NCEA. Not everyone is equipped to make such changes and we need genuinely significant policy – not just trite announcements about reducing class sizes for Year 4 – 8 students from 29 to 28 over two or three years. While the Ministry of Education is coy about numbers here, Stanford research in the US shows 1.2 million children have left the public school system. I see some merit in this pivot and helped provide an opportunity for some through assisting with starting Mt Hobson Academy Connected (though not now involved) – an online school with significant social interaction. The trend around the world is for parents/students to withdraw from the “system” and seek better alternatives.Ĭoncerns have been twofold – both the quality of the education provided and the content being taught. As one Asian student from a very expensive private school said to me, “With all of the disruptions in the last three years we went searching and found superior teachers online and worked out that we can actually do better academically by grouping together and working on our own.” It is striking that Asian students – stereotypically seen as diligent – fully attended at only 58 per cent. Teacher unions being attached by the hip to Labour accentuated the situation. It seems voters used to have Stockholm syndrome and had come to love their oppressors – there are signs that it is changing. Labour has been seen as the party for education – despite eight out of the 10 worst electorates for education results being long-term Labour seats. Our education system had a (somewhat mythical) history that led many – as recently as nine years ago - to talk with hushed reverence about our “world-class system” (even though it has never been so for the marginalised). There were reasons for this.Īpproximately 75 per cent of students did okay to well, so a large proportion of families had no major issue. In terms of election priorities New Zealand’s education system has typically been of relatively low regard and not seen as being a vote winner. Plugging in the numerical values for the transition probabilities, we end up with \(\pi_H = 0.50515, \ \pi_T = 0.49485\).The purpose of education is not just employment and careers – we are being highly negligent of the humanity of our young as well, Alwyn Poole writes.
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