2mo ago

Racist National govt to remove Maōri words from children's reading books.

www.rnz.co.nz

Education Minister cut Māori words from future junior books, documents reveal

Once again our current govt shows it's disdain for Maōri and te Tiriti.

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2mo ago

Education Minister cut Māori words from future junior books, documents reveal

www.rnz.co.nz /news/top/569782/education-minister-cut-maori-words-from-future-junior-books-documents-reveal

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5 yo's are supposed to be confused. Confusion leads to questions, which leads to learning.
- I'm glad you understand, we don't want any learning /s
One of the real eye opening moments for me, eons ago, was with a guy I played arenas in WoW with. Manipulator on Darkspear, if by chance, you're out there. Anyways, he was a kiwi, and he explained to me, one night amidst our gaming, how interesting it was that Americans assumed they had the monopoly on racism. He described how, no exaggeration, their local brown people were very much real life second class citizens, and it really left an impression on me.
Sorry to see it's not gotten better. Deport Racists!
- Wait until you hear about Australia bro.
- Over here it's so embedded that most people don't even perceive it as racism when it happens. They're like "what the hell are you talking about, everybody says (or does) that"
  
  I was at a funeral the other day and the paster said something like "this country was built on Judeo-Christian values and
  <insert name>
  lived by these values..."
  It was the whitest funeral I think I've ever been to.
  NZ is as racist as [a] Duck
- Unfortunately our racists are currently in government, voted in of course by the racist section of the proletariat.
The worst bit about it is that they will keep place and people names that are in Te Reo, so the argument about confusion just doesn't hold any water
- My son who is on the spectrum and has really struggled to read at all, skips over most Maori words, unfamiliar names or Maori place names.
  He also has a problem differentiating between other words that can also be a name or a place name, eg "Mrs Green said X" or "James walked down Brown street".
  He interprets them literally and ends up wondering why the street was brown or why was the lady green.
  The specific book that they referenced on the news last night "At the Marae" was an absolute nightmare for us to work through every time it was in his book bag.
  
  Do you think the difficulties your child experiences should effect what we teach all children and how?
  
  and I struggled all through school with reading and writing even in English (with dyslexia), that doesn't mean that we should relegate Te Reo to an even more of a second class language.
  
  I call bullshit
Gotta keep the Murrays in their place.

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