Kyle Brewerton On Why 2024 Was A Tough Year For Teachers

[@tpaine1815]

This guy's argument is that we should change nothing, because change costs millions. Well, mate, when you are doing things wrong, the first step is to admit it! The second step is to stop doing it wrong!! The third step is to evaluate what needs to be done to do things right, the fourth step, do a proper, evidence-based, and deep/comprehensive cost-benefit analysis; fifth, make the decision, sixth implement the decision; seventh, evaluate progress and review. Do not separate out Ministers and Ministries - the reality is that unlike previous governments that have governed without politicising their ministries, the last Labour government did so. This is the immediate cause of the problems in the School System. Mr Brewerton just cannot admit to the politicisation of education, to the ideology of the Labour Party, to the complete capture of Minister Hipkins over critical social justice theory versions of learning - go do the research at any university of merit - the learning approaches of "student-centered" are being queried all over the world. You are asking the ignorant to determine what they should learn. Well, gee whish - one of the problems with ignorance is that you don't know what you don't know. And as importantly, you have no prescience to work out what you need to know. This is WHY we educate our young. That is the role of teachers and parents. Now we have a certification system that allows students to pick and chose easy and disconnected pieces of information so they can beat the system to pass onto the next education layer where they encounter....the real world of realistic assessment that is now itself being corrupted.

[@mo-p6x]

If you are a paid government servant, paid by the taxpayer, you do not get to say what the employer, the government policy wants/wishes to occur. If you do not like what the job is, then find another job. If the ship is heading towards the reef, change course.

[@adsdft585]

National Standards introduced by the last National/ACT during 2009-2017 and the standard of people in years 13 started school in 2011, and those in year 9 started in 2015. So, exam outcomes may be the result of the 2009-2017 period.

[@tpaine1815]

No, quite clearly the Ministry of Education has not been "brought to heel." Don't kid yourself. This guy is happy to announce that school (his primary school) closed up last Friday. Well, let's get real - when I was at school primary schools didn't let out for Christmas holidays until the week before Christmas - they should be teaching the last week of school this week. !!! Truancy on the one side, reduced school hours of active, engaged teaching on the other, teacher only days, strike days, etc. etc. How many schools can you drive past in the afternoon and see primary school students out at 2.30 ande high school kids out before 3pm. Or students still straggling into schools at 9am. Pockets of excellence - wow, wow - "worse than we were 20 years ago" - Well yes, because we have spent the last 20 years changing schools into ideological, cultural indoctrination madrasas, as opposed to following content based curricula.

[@berniefynn6623]

Teachers need to learn that they control the classroom not the kids, discipline not matey, tell NOT ask, school is for learning, NOT a social event.

[@karencampbell2410]

I would agree Michael. I have been in education a long time. I actually have more confidence in Erica Stanford than other ministers.

[@adsdft585]

The 2017 to 2023 government was developing changes to address issues.

[@fossilmatic]

Wow. There’s a sense of self-serving superiority here that explains why teachers collectively have failed to make the last 22 years work. The idea that the 2007 “curriculum” document was world-leading (but admittedly has little or no detail about how to achieve its vague aims) suggests a lack of objective analysis and reflection on the resulting mess.

[@starcraftyschannel1926]

Cut their funding, you shouldn't reward failure, and that's before you get to the fact the teacher union are a partisan activist organization

[@DrRatweasel]

Rubbish. Subjective opinion.

[@adsdft585]

So the three party government has shown it automatic rejection of policy introduced during period 2017-2023 by Labour and NZ First.

[@DrRatweasel]

What .? People stll listen to M Laws...?Were doomed..