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Terry Locke's avatar

Great work, John.

Have you considered sending it as an opinion piece to The Listener?

Terry

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Maureen Haua's avatar

Absolutely shameful. One in 4 kiwi kids go to bed hungry each day, probably the same children everyday. This CoC has no moral compass, their empathy lies only with the privileged. How to stop their selfish mayhem?

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Sarah Te One's avatar

Great piece. Thank you John… .

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Kylee Reads Things's avatar

It really does blow my mind that the CSA decided this school was something desperately needed in our network.

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Donal McLean's avatar

Haha are we surprised. I taught at Richmond Road which had a French Unit that was funded largely by France and staffed by two very good teachers both of whom were fluent in French and English. Many of the families travelled from suburbs outside GreyLynn/Ponsonby to have their children taught in French. They did not need the money for set up.

This is a money grab and shameless and below the level of general public knowledge.

It is more and more Seymours MO and only the very beginning.

It would be great for AEC to cover our new minister of regulations dangerous backgrounding in how to underfund, rupture then replace institutions that are state run, publically funded with publically funded and privately run for profit. Seymours ATLAS playbook is lock stepped with his current push in so many ways. He is also acting like the spear head of the National party's direction and strangely Luxon is not doing anything to stop what to my mind is a serious attack on our NZ Democracy and so our education system. Seymour has to be stopped and yet Luxon has already stated Seymour's new Ministry will go ahead.

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Alwyn Poole's avatar

100% agree with you John. A complete nonsense.

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ASkepticStill's avatar

I've really got to wonder about the idea of teaching tamarki to speak French and English rather than something a bit less related to two hyper-colonial powerhouse nations.

I grew up in the USA in a state collonized once by Canadians, twice by the French and once by the Spanish before being SOLD land, people and all to the Americans.

I did CODOFIL: Council for the Development of French in Louisiana during high school and spent a year in Paris at the Alliance Français and the Sorbonne, but it seems a bit too European for my tastes and France is hardly what she once was

We now have magnet schools in Louisiana instead of teaching French are teaching Chinese! Always trying to keep up with the next colonisers to come I expect.

Unless you are prepping kids to move to French Canada?

JAC, MSW (ret)

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