Talk:Charter schools in New Zealand

RE: Reference Mark Adams"20 years on"
This review appears to be written by an American for an American audience.The writer has a clear right wing political agenda. The review misses MANY major points altogether. It has significant errors in regard to NZ culture.The plural of Maori is Maori. Native is a term that was replaced by Maori about a century ago! Key points missed were the changes to education were driven by the need to save money as NZ was broke. This was by far the most important driver of reforms. The second huge mistake was not realizing that student performance -as measured by qualifications didn't actually improve at all-the qualifications were just made much easier-by about 35%. This allowed many more students to get a qualification but in fact the students has exactly the same abilities and skills as before! Indeed there was a substancial dip for 2-3 years while schools came to grips with the new and convoluted NCEA system. The system saw many of the most capable and gifted teachers flee the profession to teach overseas.

NCEA ,when introduced, had many horrendous problems which took 8 years to remove. The review totally ignores the fact that performance for European children was always very high and for Maori and Pacific Islander always very low. This situation is still exactly the same today. The latest PISA rankings have Europeans students as 2nd in the world and Maori about 40th. The number of unemployed went down because many were cynically shifted to the sickness benefit! The number of students at senior school and in tertiary training went up as there were no jobs for many and the unemployment benefit was stopped for 16 -18 year olds. Cynical. Student loans made it possible for more tertiary students to increase qualifications but the cost was horrendous-students currently owe $40 billion NZ. Many of these student never finished their qualifications-although it could be argued they did learn something mainly how to manage a huge debt.It is illuminating that Tertiary Institutions all ignored the horrendous time wasters in NCEA -for example they kept marking in the tradition manner thereby saving millions of dollars.

The review talk about failed schools but this is an American concept -there are no failed school at all in Nz. There always were schools with many poor or Maori or Pacific Island children(which tend to be the same thing) and they still exist today but probably more so. Some schools have shut down but this was due to demographic shifts -mainly the lack of jobs in some rural communities. The review fails to recognize the impact of ideology and spin doctoring. It does not recognize that a parallel quantum shift was happening -the digital revolution- which has seen major shifts in how education is delivered and received.

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