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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