Principal (le?) learning

Just wondering ….

We are told that maori and pacifica children are overrepresented in the tail of achievement that exists in the NZ education system.  Why is it then that the children who are doing best in the system are the ones who are currently the focus of the implementation of the National Standards and the ones who supposedely need the input the most are exempt for quite some time to come yet.

Would it not have made sense to focus on the ‘highest need’ group first?  Should Standards not be culturally inclusive?  Is this not a Treaty issue?  How can a ‘barrier to learning’ be ignored like this?

Perhaps schools should follow the MoE lead and focus our Charter development targets on the high achieving and ‘average’ kids?  The low achievers can have more time to work it our for themselves and we will get to them later…  I can imagine how this would go down when I push send on my report to the MoE.  How is this double standard acceptable?

….. in my cynical wee mind I am just wondering.

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