Regardless of the disputed assessment method itself, there
is truth in the findings of The Programme for International Study Assessment:
Education Minister Hekia Parata says New Zealand's slide in international rankings which measure achievement in maths, science and reading is not a Government failing because the students who sat the tests were not products of its National Standards system, but were schooled earlier. New Zealand plunged in all three categories in the OECD league tables, which were the result of testing 15-year-olds in 65 countries including 4000 young people in New Zealand.Experts said the rankings were not the most important part of the report, but the scale of the fall was still damaging for a government which has put student achievement at the heart of its education policy.The Programme for International Study Assessment (Pisa) report, released last night, showed that since the last testing period in 2009 New Zealand had fallen in ranking from 7th to 13th in reading, 13th to 23rd in maths, and 7th to 18th in science.
It doesn’t matter which of our state-centric
political parties – that’s all of them in Parliament – happens to be in power, the problem lies at the heart of the state education system: namely,
that document so influencing the mind of a nation, our school curriculum which
promotes the bloodied altar and slave society built on the ‘common good’:
Excerpt: New Zealand Curriculum.Students will be encouraged to value:Equity, through fairness and social justice.Community and participation for the common good.’
The answer to improving education standards is surprisingly
simple:
Put teaching maths, science and reading at the heart of the
curriculum.
Teach classical liberalism, rather than imbibing generation
after generation on welfarism, the result of which is to produce little savages, rather than self-sufficient, analytical, responsible adults,
who can understand that a country borrowing $27 million a day to run a welfare
state is not even possible, quite apart from being morally repugnant.
And make the PPTA answerable for this failure, by removing their state-paid opposition and ostracisation of charter schools. We need to remove the state from education, and create
schooling choices around the fact children are individuals, different, and optimal
results will not come from forcing them into a one size fits all approach to education, centred on brainwashing young minds into acceptance of a theocracy of State.
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"And make the PPTA answerable for this failure, by removing their state-paid opposition and ostracisation of charter schools. We need to remove the state from education..."
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely agreed.
The PPTA is like the UN of the education system.
It goes in, gets in the way and utterly f**ks things up for the people that it professes to "help".
It is no surprise that private schools get great results. We need many more of them and a number of charter/partnership schools as well.
We need a lot FEWER state schools. They are nothing but indoctrination centres.
Bring back times-tables and the teaching of reading via phonics. Those two things alone will go a long way towards fixing the problems.
The worst damage PPTA do is to imbibe young minds with their Left ideology: as stated, it's even written into the curriculum. It was on that point that the battle to retain a free West was lost hopelessly.
DeleteI think you have a point there. Your suggested solutions seem to have a favorable outcome. Being a business management student at American School of Entrepreneurship I'm quite familiar with feasibility studies, and I see nothing wrong about your motion, only that this will become a threat to the PPTA which I think will be a big issue. Is it possible to easily remove their government benefits?
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