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Utterly reliable source: Statutory managers to be allocated to schools on Monday, 21 November
The really significant point is that the day for allocating these to schools is Monday, 21 November, the Monday before the election. John Key has okayed the move.... more
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Tolley backing down - ministry source
The situation now is that the ministry is set to back down. It has informed its staff that ‘duress declaration’ schools ‘will be subject to some regular reporting on the progress that they are making on implementing national standards.’ No reference was made to a statutory intervention of any kind. But this is typically ambiguous. That is because the only way the ministry can enforce ‘regular reporting’ is with some form of statutory intervention.... more
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Tolley suckered
On Tuesday, the ministry was all over my web site. I have learnt as a result of experience that this often occurs around the time of the ministry making a move. I rang up a friend and said something’s on.
Late on Friday afternoon, I heard what – Aranga a small school near Dargaville had received a phone call informing the principal that on Monday a Limited Statutory Manager (LSM) was going to be appointed. I learnt on enquiry that the principal was Myles Ferris.... more
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National standards: we are doing brilliantly
The constructive and principled action by those in education was always intended to lay out the case in favour of enlightened education and to give the government, media, and elite time to reflect.... more
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If you have received the ministry deadline
There is no way the ministry can rush you about the time-line: stick to your original one; indeed, have genuine discussions with a broad range of people, including the ministry; a couple of phone calls just won’t suffice – the ministry must negotiate in good faith.... more
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Jackboots in the classroom
The immediate issue is, of course, national standards and in this posting I want to use a minor incident in this unfolding drama to indicate how in a number of small ways we can respond – I see it as a kind of dirty war.... more
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Forced documentation
Once upon a time there was a little country school that sat in a very quiet valley.
And the way the school faced you could, with a few throws, toss a pebble into the Whanganui River, behind the school, cosseting it, were some of the most rugged hills in the kingdom.
Around the school was a fence with moss and lichen providing texture to the slightly askew posts supporting No. 8 wire.... more
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Tolley fighting for her job
What she has to say reeks of desperation, of a minister fighting for her job.... more
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Wednesday was a good day in the fight against NS
It is a huge opportunity to finish national standards off. Skilfully used, I predict that a significant number of further schools will decide to join the ethically-compliant.... more
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Kelvin, we wondered what the hell you were on about
Because teachers and principals could sense I was somehow on their side, I had a fair amount of support in a personal way, but there was considerable mystification as to my actual purposes and motivation – as a leading consultant now, but a principal then, recently said to me: ‘Kelvin, we wondered what the hell you were on about.’... more
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