by frog
Frog note: NOT a picture from Dr Cullen's schooldays
If I was a teacher at a public secondary school I’d be dusting off my CV about now and looking for the ivy covered walls of a private school (confusingly known as public schools in The UK)
It turns out that the Government was planning on culling many of these these venerable knowledge imparters prior to the budget until the Education Minister Anne Tolley realised this involved actual job losses of real staff – rather than (presumably) avatars.
“I don’t think that I thought they were actual staff. I didn’t realise that they were actually all in place,” [Ms Tolley] said. “I still thought that we were talking about it as being in the future.”
Perhaps Ms Tolley was too busy trying to persuade the Finance Minister and Treasury that New Zealand’s private schools needed a big cash injection of $35 million dollars in the budget to notice the potential loss of over 700 jobs.
Despite our nation’s bean counters in the Treasury pointing out funding private education wasn’t based on any sound policy – the money was found and we now know where some of this dosh is going.
At a sparsely attended press conference it would appear random scholarships will be awarded to those attending our public schools in some sort of Pygmalion like attempt to make young gents and gentesses out of these presumably poor benighted travellers in the nation’s education system.
Just to make certain that public schools know their place in the grand scheme of things – Associate Education Minister Heather Roy has been trying to drum up a few scholarship candidates by telling Dunedin schools to sign up their best and brightest pupils.
However decades from now could this desire to create a class of Govt scholarship student bite the classically liberal hand feeding it– a one time scholarship lad had this to say in his maiden speech circa 1982.
Mr East: And to your old school, Christ’s College.
Dr CULLEN: And to my old school, Christ’s College. I am proud of the fact that my secondary education was not paid for by the taxpayers of New Zealand but by the farmers of Canterbury and Hawke’s Bay. I ripped them off for 5 years then, and I shall get stuck into them again in the next few years, so the honourable member should not bring that subject up too often.
Could this National/Act scheme be creating hundreds of potential Michael Cullen’s?
Published in Featured | Society & Culture by frog on Thu, October 1st, 2009
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
It would be interesting to know Mr. Keys view on this as he came from a state housing area and attending a state housing.
Remember before the election he seems to have intimated that he was going to do good in this area.
This is a blatant attack on the public school system and will result in a wider disparity of a priviliged class and an under class.
As for the picture; The boy at the top could be Dr. Cullen but the other boy is definately Billy Bunter!!!!
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Sorry second line in above post should say ‘state school’
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