Tag poverty

Tomorrow Schools and the Equity Gap

It’s interesting to see that word “review” and “reform” getting bandied about. At one point, reform was an issue as we fought off “GERM”… Now, a review is taking place of our school system, and some suggestions being made, and…

Prison Beds or Educated Society

Two point five billion dollars. $2.5 billion dollars. $2,500,000,000.00 That’s a lot of dollar coins. Let me tell you what they will spend it on. No. Not fixing the poverty problem sweeping the country. No. Not assisting children living in…

No to League Tables

“Have we introduced league tables? No.” Hekia Parata said this in a meeting at a school as she rattled off a number of things ‘scaremongers’ had said would happen in regards to GERM. This included things like Performance Pay. This statement…