Doomed by the mandating of National Standards, the New Zealand Curriculum effectively becomes redundant............so I put it on Trade Me (no reserve!). Given it's potential and relatively pristine condition - who knows?

A large group of Invercargill principals have decided they will collectively boycott the Ministry of Education’s National Standards implementation workshops, aimed at preparing teachers for National Standards.

The decision follows a meeting attended by 17 out of the 23 principals in the Invercargill area.

In what is a unanimous and joint position, they say all the schools represented at the meeting will not be taking part in the Ministry’… Continue

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A principal writes...
Round up of recent National Standards media

Here's the text of a letter about National Standards read on Nine to Noon on Feb 4th.

Hello Katherine,

Thank goodness for some perspective and balance this morning on this topic. If only successive governments had resisted the urges they have all had to use education as a vehicle to establish their mark on the country through their endless initiatives and constant meddling.

We are witnessing yet again the softening up processes through misquoted and inaccurate statisti… Continue

The bus tour hit Waitangi today and parked up along the waterfront just down from the bottom marae - sea, sun and views out to the Pacific. We spent most of the day getting people signed up to the petition. It was a bit like being on a pedestrian tourist highway and you wouldn't believe the number of British retired teachers who are visiting NZ and who passed our way. Interestingly they were all very keen to talk and find out more about National Standards - their overwhelming view was "don't

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Hi all



It has been suggested that we send back our national standards pamphlet
that john key is sending to us (with tax payer money that could have
gone to our kids).



Imagine his surprise if he gets thousands of pamphlets sent back to him.



Talk with your friends and pass the idea on.



Prime Minister John Key

Parliament Office

Private Bag 18888

Parliament Buildings

Wellington 6160

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