“Nutters resurrected at Ministry of Education!”

<h2> Te Tai Tokerau Principals’ Association President&comma; Pat Newman has slammed the MoE&&num;8217&semi;s latest news&comma; saying&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nutters resurrected at the Ministry of Education&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The latest kite being flown from Wellington re NCEA and Year 7&amp&semi; 8 children shows clearly that these people not only know zero about how children learn and what is important in learning&comma; but worse still&comma; they have not learnt from the National Standards debacle&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If the three Ministers really understand educational pedagogy&comma; really understand how children truly learn&comma; understand what is important in children’s learning&comma; then they need to bury this cuckoo idea immediately&comma; today and not a day longer&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;schoolnews&period;co&period;nz&sol;2019&sol;09&sol;principals-oppose-ncea-tests-for-primary-school-children&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Read about the Ministry&&num;8217&semi;s suggestion in more detail here and find out what other education bodies had to say&period;  <&sol;a><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m really tired&comma; as are my colleagues&comma; if having to put up with stupid idea after stupid idea emanating from Wellington… On the salaries they earn&comma; you would expect them to have at least a little bit of educational knowledge&excl; As well&comma; one should expect that who work with children on a daily basis&comma; would be consulted prior&period; Its almost like someone wakes up one day and has a bright idea&excl;&excl;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;