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Closer to home in New Zealand - with all our best efforts in education, only
60% of children are regularly attending school. In the past 20 years, we
have dropped from being near the top of the world in reading and maths, to
now being close to the bottom rung.
This is and will be a great catastrophe for New Zealand - if we are unable to
produce the next generations of inventors, scientists, IT professionals,
doctors, researchers, builders, engineers, farmers and entrepreneurs.
This is a disaster in the making - and make no mistake, both National as well as Labour are responsible for this mess. Both big parties worked over the last decades hand in hand to screw up our education system - both fostering convenience (way of lowest resistance), teaching PC mumbo jumbo and padding a bunch of self serving unions and bureaucrats over the traditional values of teaching children to read and write at least one useful language, teaching them maths, teaching them to learn how to learn and teaching them discipline and respect.