A post from James Stephenson:
According to Stuff, the President of the NZEI, Julie Nowotarski has labelled ACT's education policy "crackpot nonsense" and her equivalent at the PPTA, Angela Roberts, has said that children could become "political pawns" of the ACT party, under their plan to allow Schools to opt out of Ministry control.
Children as political pawns? Sounds dreadful, I wonder what that would look like? Maybe something like this:
The message to parents, that schools and children are the property of the Unions to control, is very clear. My old Secondary School in the UK went "Grant Maintained" way back in 1993, has gone from strength to strength and is now an Academy (the UK's term for Charter School) with a recently-added Sixth Form.
Far from being "crackpot nonsense" this policy from ACT is tried, tested, successful and popular. More like this please Jamie.
