Plan to gag teachers from criticizing National Standards complaints
Gag plan angers teacher unions
The State Services Commission wants to gag principals and teachers from criticising the Government. The public service watchdog invited the Principals Federation and primary school union NZEI to talk about including schools and boards of trustees in the Standards of Integrity and Conduct code. The code, which covers government departments and district health boards, states that it is unacceptable for employees to comment on government policy if it constitutes a "personal attack" on a minister, work colleagues or other state servants. The move has incensed unions representing thousands of principals and teachers, who are concerned they will not be able to "speak their mind" on matters such as national standards.
Anne Tolley has cried some crocodile tears over this gagging policy but seeing as she lied through her teeth over Parents supporting her ill conceived secret league table for education and that she continues to push for this while academics have called her move the worst thing to ever happen to education, I don’t take her tears seriously at all especially after it was announced that she was seriously looking at dumping over 770 teachers just before the budget!
So gagging teachers from critiquing a policy that will be the worst thing to ever happen to NZ education?
How’s that change you voted for last November feeling now NZ?
posted by Bomber @ 7:01 am
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The trouble with getting paid to make a living is that sometimes you just don't earn your money.Take the articles on the 2025 taskforce by Garth George and Tapu Misa for example.Good honest journo's.Then deborah hill cone.tres embarrasment.things just go from bad to awful as this punta makes her first bet at the trots.please that wos thirty yeras ago as a kid out with mates parents at best.My policy at the moment if bomber and gwynne dyer say it's good for the war on terror and climate change and his book climate wars puts them both together it probably isn't.
So the very people best suited to tell if the new policy is working (let's set aside research that says it won't - or the teachers' experience) won't be allowed to?
If there was ever any doubt that this is dogmatic/political decision and not one based on educational theory it should be gone now.
This is largely formalising the position as it stands today. When things get messy, the Ministry wades into the staff room and monsters everyone in sight. We are getting close to a police state here, due to poor leadership at every level of the education infrastructure. The Ministry will continue to second guess what is going on around the place trying to dampen down the hot spots by running with the big boys. As for equity, fair go, what is right .. well that will happen again when the whole awful system gets a major shake-out!
Having so-called standards didn't make much difference to the estimated 80,000 homes affected or the $11 Billion cost to fix them or associated health costs with damp and asthma further down the track (Price Waterhouse Coopers) bill for leaky homes.
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