Dr Bex

a woman sitting in front of a microphone with the words are they in the room with us right now below her ALT: a woman sitting in front of a microphone with the words are they in the room with us right now below her

Is the "available support" with us in the room right now?

Is this the same MSD that put terminal cancer patients onto jobseeker ? #nzpol

A fully detailed plan but no explanation for disabled learners or neurodivergent students or those with ORS or anything - you could be forgiven for reading the document and thinking that disability and neurodivergence don't exist in secondary school students

This is a MUST READ!!

“A fully detailed five-year implementation plan, complete with start dates, compulsory subjects, qualification names, and grading systems, has already been released. This is not consultation; this is a done deal dressed up as dialogue.” #nzpol #NCEA

Yes so it would seem

Oh, is it now? That would explain the congruence

“It’s a crisis”: Half of NZ’s 112,500 are under 25

Half of NZ’s 112,500 homeless are under 25.
The consistent approach for this government seems to be to manufacture a crisis and address it in ways that will only serve privileged people instead of communities of greatest need.
Stable housing.
Adequate access to food and healthcare.
That’s the need.

At the public consultation on this park a long time ago I pointed out 9/10 people would be crossing the park diagonally.

The response was the landscape architects were confident in their pathway and circulation design as they were expects

So here’s what a desire HIGHWAY looks like

GP fees rising towards $100 Ambulance fees up almost 30% We can't afford three more years of Luxon Authorised by Ayesha Verrall MP, Parliament Buildings Wellington Funded by Parliament Service.

Because of his government’s underfunding GP fees are heading towards $100. 🤧👎

🤣🤣🤣

I’d just like to point out that the subjects “English” and “Maths” are not the same as Literacy and Numeracy, a key point that seems to have escaped this Minister of Education 😑 #nzpol

As A Child I Yearned For The Mines Minecraft GIF ALT: As A Child I Yearned For The Mines Minecraft GIF

The children yearn for the mines

FFS, we brought in internal assessment in the 19-fucking-80s because it was a better indicator of a student's abilities than external exams, and let me tell you, as someone who was good at exams, it absolutely is.

- this change to NCEA does NOTHING, ZERO, ZIP, NADA to address any of the aforementioned challenges in education.

If anything, it'll make it all worse

(didn't think that was possible, yet somehow, here we are!)

But hey, wealthy folk'll be able to easily create school comparison tables!!

And seems mostly to be a cheap 'dead cat' distraction from an underfunded education system that does a major disservice to disabled learners and families, excludes most neurodivergent learners and families, and is struggling to retain teachers due to low pay/pay inequity/poor working conditions.

It also reads like, we want to set it up so our monied base can easily tell what are the 'good' schools aka which ones will game the system to get our kids A's on exams.

It utterly fails to realise that many, many schools are dealing with the hard edge of social issues like poverty/cost of living

This reads an AWFUL lot like,

The wealthy boomers we hang out with don't understand NCEA so we are making it super simple for them to know who the clever kids are.

It utterly fails to understand that anyone under the age of 40 is VERY familiar with NCEA and has a solid working knowledge of it all

Stuff headline: Former Shortland Street star’s fight to help autistic son. Photo caption: Difficulty getting 20 year old autistic son into special needs school. He keeps walking to the airport to go back to Canada. Police have helped 30+ times in the past 18 months.

TIL that funding for special needs is administered directly by the Govt not by MinEdu.

No physical assessment is made. Discretionary $ depend *entirely* on how well the application is written.

$ capped at 1% of the school popn.
#Autism
#Grandson

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Example n+1 that this govt does not give a shit about your kids in any way, ESPECIALLY kids who need AND DESERVE special supports.

#nzpol

The Ministry of Education negotiation team has told the PPTA that increasing access and resources is unaffordable in these fiscally prudent times and so schools should refer these children to the Ministry of Health.

I was at a community funding workshop 2 weeks ago and every speaker there working in the social space said it was the worst it has ever been. This includes people working in this space in the late 80s/early 90s.

Aww shucks ☺️

Christopher Luxon is so egregiously privileged he thinks he is entitled to our respect, our support, just because he can say some businessy words & he reeks of enthusiasm like an untoilet trained puppy

Someone should have told him this is Aotearoa & we do things a bit different here

I suspect they are surprised at the *speed* w which their callous polices have resulted in visible homelessness and poverty - I don't think they really understood how severely their colleagues slashed existing safety nets/social services or that this meant there was no-one to provide care

I mean, they are lying. Bishop & certainly Potaka knew exactly what would happen but thought they could just ride it out for long enough to hold onto power, by holding culture war carnivals, and relying on a demoralised news media to hate poor people enough to ignore the social carnage.

He is SO entitled it does my head in. This expectation that we will all love him bc why? He's "wealthy and sorted"? Oh f*ck right off. He needs to get out of his wealthy privileged bubble and stop making swathes of legislation that actively harm the very people he's supposed to be serving.

Amusing how all the pictures in this story of the now allegedly dangerously narrow lanes look just normal. The catastrophising of change is basically what this stuff's about.

ANNETTE SYKES SHARED MY ETANGATA POST!!!!

I have hit the ultimate in nerdy famous people sharing my work I can now die happy*

(*I am not planning on dying lol is a strange turn of english phrasing that seemed entirely appropriate!)

PM Christopher Luxon admits he needs to 'work harder on corporate speak' after 'customers' reference And he concedes he needs to work on his "corporate speak" after calling voters "customers" in the latest episode of 30 with Guyon Espiner.

Oh, and don't forget calling everyone "customers" not citizens or voters or people:
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

Luxon suggests Davidson apologise to white cis men for violence comments Davidson has apologised to the prime minister but not publicly.

Not to mention, he criticized Green co‑leader Marama Davidson for saying "white cis men" were the main perpetrators of violence, calling her remarks “incredibly harmful” and a generalisation against an entire group and demanded a public apology
www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/28/l...