National-led government crafting a separate curriculum for disabled students.

corruption in plain sight

#nzpol Chef's kiss

MJ was challenged when he referred to the bs phonics data as proof the changes were working. He responded with anger. He wasn’t invited to speak about boys achievement. He chose to do so. His presentation put boys poor achievement down to the strong female culture in schools. Nothing else.

Hi, my name is Erica Stanford, and instead of having the guts to got through the proper regulatory process and make my case to the sector, I'm going to use sneaky, undemocratic means to strike at the heart of what it means to be a learner in New Zilund, and then hide behind my media mates.

In today’s Weekend Herald #Fonterra

If Erica Stanford has any sense of self preservation, she would throw this smug self-serving fail-upwards Pakeha statue guy under the bus. He has potentially wrecked her political career.

Also has the NZ media even reported on the OIA by NZATE (I think it was) that returned evidence that David Seymour logged in to a Google Doc of the English curriculum rewrite and started making his own edits to it, completely outside the chain of responsibility and Ministry procedures?

Damn…..did the people that wrote the new “knowledge rich” curriculum even proof read their work or know how to math?

Why are random citizens consistently, and continuously, turning up major scandals by the government that NZ media are both *incapable of finding* AND refuse to report on even when they learn about it via citizen journalism???

it’s preparing the curriculum for “AI” “teachers”. it’s really hard to read the prescriptiveness any other way in the current context.

Jesus fucking christ on a bike. This is really REALLY BAD. This isn't history, it's propaganda.

Letter to Stanford from The NZ History Teachers’ Association about that complete fuck up of a social sciences curriculum #nzpol

Putting together a Board to lead a hostile bid to make Auckland Grammar a charter school.

I’ve just realised that new curriculum was written by people who think winning a pub quiz is a measure of well educated you are.

Read this!

My latest article

The whole charter school set up smells.

I've written this article about our very dubious Minister of Education

Surprise! #kiwi

Here I go again

This government enshittifies everything #nzpol #nzed #supportTeachers 'Ironically, the 2023 curriculum was just what we needed. The 2024 version was almost as good. This 2025 curriculum seems to have been written by an offshore consultant who knows little about the context of Aotearoa New Zealand.'

Horizons regional council final results are in and it’s a (narrow) win for keeping the Māori ward: www.horizons.govt.nz/HRC/media/Me...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: action.nzei.org.nz/petitions/ba... @nzeiteriuroa.bsky.social

I wrote this:

A must watch

Here I go again

Erica Stanford's plan to change NZ schooling must be stopped - my latest article

Shades of the ferries and Dunedin hospital and the polytechs. Scrap the existing programme without warning or planning, create an expensive muddle, then replace it with something less good and more expensive. All for the sake of ideology. #nzpol

Manafacturing an NCEA crisis while ghosting the cost of living crisis they were supposedly elected on. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Based on an excellent arctic;e by Bail Haque thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/09/30/q...

This needs to be investigated.

This is an excellent chat between two eloquent and informed people. I stayed up way past my bedtime last night watching it.

This is a brilliant interview. Chloe has to be the most economically literate politician in AONZ right now. youtu.be/zl_LgDjpzxE?... #nzpol

Even the landmark 2022 Peter Ellis case that recognises tikanga as the first law of Aotearoa is up for legislative debate.

You may not find it on the front pages - or even sports pages - of the four big local media companies, but Niamh Fisher-Black won the silver medal in last night’s women’s road race at the world champs in Rwanda. And yes, that’s a big deal.

The junior maths curriculum is being rewritten in England.

The gulf between Arden and Luxon is light years wide

Can’t wait for the Ian Taylor “letter to Jon” think piece 🙃

Tomorrow is the Rapture! Take an old pair of shoes, put a piece of dry ice inside each. Have fun.

Also, is this the “significant announcement in Auckland” that meant Stanford had to cancel her speech at the PPTA conference because the day clashed? Because if so, this is the wrong day.

Is it really "fast-tracking" or "accelerating" when it's basically restarting some of the 100-odd projects you iced a year ago, putting the construction sector into a nosedive? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Do we as a country want this to happen?

For those of you who've not yet voted in your local body election

More of my ponderings...

Plunket: So the way to do that is get the Treaty, get all this Treaty stuff, out of education, right? Stanford: In one go.

Sir Brian Roche saying that teachers should have held their strike in the school holidays to cause less disruption My dude, the whole point of striking is to cause disruption, this is the power the workers hold - withholding labour! #NZPol

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