Tag Archives: Ministry of Education

Here we go again: another intervention injustice

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Kelvin Smythe

I have substantial amounts of information about goings-on at Wairoa College, some of it scandalous, but that can be looked into by the ministerial inquiry I’m calling for, I just want concentrate here on the bureaucratic behaviour around the appointment … Continue reading →

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Rangiora High School: attempts to discredit Authority decision: explosive staff meeting: why Hekia resigned: $m of blood money found

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Kelvin Smythe

This posting begins quietly, setting the scene, one in which a principal and a board are unjustifiably dismissed on the basis of a secret report. In the process, I believe the commissioner compromised the Strategic Leadership Team (SLT) which partly … Continue reading →

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A famous victory for Peggy Burrows

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Kelvin Smythe

The famous victory was for Peggy Burrows along with her wonderful supporters, including Marlene Campbell, Paul Finch, her lawyer, and many from the school and community. I accept, however, that networkonnet kept charging into the issue, keeping it in the … Continue reading →

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Worst in English-speaking world: TIMSS – QED – 26 years and only one good system thing happened

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Kelvin Smythe

And I’ll get that over quickly: the brave resistance to national standards – the best thing in the system was opposing something in it. What follows is a speed trip over 26 years which, in retrospect, demonstrates that nothing in … Continue reading →

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Kerr off leash no longer barking mad

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Kelvin Smythe

The New Zealand School Trustees’ M-16-8 has completed a wondrous turnaround. The challenge for the presidency from Richard Green has contributed, but the main reason is that Hekia Parata, while still a conservative educationist has, with her resignation, signalled disillusionment … Continue reading →

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Neoliberal education is a system of trickle down power: let’s not be diverted by neoliberal stunts

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Kelvin Smythe

Hekia Parata is making a flurry of pathetic education announcements because she can, and because she needs to: she can in the sense that the achievement performance of schools is good enough – courtesy of all the high stakes inflation … Continue reading →

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Maori plan is egregious education and aberrant democracy

Posted on July 26, 2016 by Kelvin Smythe

This situation with 21st century curriculum development is unconscionable: we have the 2008 curriculum; the ministry mainly ignoring it and making it up in the name of national standards and controlling teachers; the education review office doing the same but … Continue reading →

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Down to detail now: Hekia in deep trouble

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Kelvin Smythe

Fight over $12M in assets Rangiora High School board of trustees’ meetings 2014: Allocated funds: Peggy’s utterly proper actions It is now time for exact detail to demonstrate that the appointed commissioner and her boss, Hekia Parata, but mainly through … Continue reading →

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Where school education is really going

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Kelvin Smythe

This is a two-part posting: The first is based on information about the wider and real plans for the education system. The second is a glimpse of what I see as the cluster morass. As a foreword, my sources tell … Continue reading →

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Bryan Bruce intervenes in the Rangiora scandal

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Kelvin Smythe

Posted on FaceBook: Bryan Bruce Permission To Speak? Denied! In the South Island town of Rangiora, secondary school principal Peggy Burrows has been battling to be reinstated to her position after being sacked. Why? Well, I only know what I … Continue reading →

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