by frog
When, back in July, I chided a National Party candidate for her inept grasp of the English language, I was told off in the comments thread for being a bully. However, when a party releases its education policy, and talks gravely about declining literacy standards, I think one is entitled to poke fun at its poor spelling.
It’s almost comical that material released by National relating to its education policy contains such gems as “prinicipal Elwyn Jones” and “Josh’s progress in writing his adequate”. I’m left wondering whether the mistakes were in fact deliberate – a deeply philosophical statement of National Party principle. Indeed, I can well imagine Bill English saying:
Look, spelling is political correctness gone mad. Labour is trying to socially engineer our kids. It’s trying to tell our kids that they must spell words in the way Labour decides. Labour’s saying that if our kids exercise choice in how to spell everyday words, a choice that National staunchly defends, then they’ll be ostracised by this bossy boots government. That’s absolute PC nonsense, and National will have no part of it!
Published in Campaign | Society & Culture by frog on Thu, September 1st, 2005
Tags: environment
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
very good take on the vernacular of the english there..frog..i could hear and see him as i read it…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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Actually the policy is really scary – especially that National has not consulted with the education sector to write this policy, and the comment about “school certificate for seven year olds”. That’d be hell!
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know what yous mean fwofg, some peoples without hardly any education what should be voting for labour do the working man thiung and go centre right bisuness good,
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Anyone who wants to know the effects of exams for ever lower school levels and ever younger children, only needs to look at Korea, Japan, China or Taiwan, or even the US and it’s use of SAT scores to determine school spending.
A large number of immigrants come here because they believe that their children will have a better education, not just become studying robots.
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