I am starting to see a worrying trend.
As a Principal, I worry about educational policy, but the penny has just dropped. The connection has been made. National Standards...Charter schools...Mighty River Power.....Miners' strike...
The government is systematically stripping the assets that are owned by everyone in our community (including schools) and redistributing those assets among the wealthiest members of society (and certainly those who fund their politics.)
Who will buy shares in State Owned Enterprises?
Who will reap the profit from charter schools?
The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
The death of Maggie Thatcher is a timely reminder of my working class upbringing around the coal mines in South Wales in the early 80s.... I can't help but notice the same politics creeping into NZ.
Ill-conceived educational policy is just the tip of the ice berg.
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