Haeata Community College
June 22, 2019
By NZB3
Would you let your child (or even your pig) go to a Government School? Haeata Community College in Christchurch is their flagship.
News digest…
“The opening of Haeata Community College…signposted a new era for schooling in the east. It’s a poster child for big-box classrooms, catering for up to 200 kids in one space.”
“It was formed from the closure of four schools in Christchurch’s eastern suburbs; Aranui High plus Aranui, Avondale and Wainoni primary schools.”
“..one of the pigs in the school’s petting zoo (“a pet pig, introduced to help teach empathy”) …was assaulted by students who put a stick up its bottom.”
“…the teacher who initiated it would have been devastated by the animal cruelty. ”
[did the teacher die on the job?]
“Another teacher sprained a wrist after intervening in a fight between pupils while others have suffered bruising from hurled objects, kicks and bites.”
“One man removed his 15-year-old son from Haeata two weeks ago, “livid” with the school’s response to violence…”Kai Fong said staff “got to the bottom of it”, but the family withdrew their son before any meeting could occur.”
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image ref. Andy Kai Fong, Founding Principal; Will Haeata help the kids of the east?; Christchurch Dilemmas, Facebook
Ref. Pet pig assaulted by Christchurch school students; Stuff
See also:
2015: Kāhui Ako: A Cluster Schmuck of Learning
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