Teach Our History?

September 10, 2019

By NZB3

Anything The State turns its hand to will wind up achieving the opposite of its stated aims every single time.

That holds for teaching history as well as for Race Relations, BTW. There’s nothing you can’t make worse by adding more Government to it!

The Human Rights Commission is overstepping its brief by lobbying for education curriculum change and statutory holiday alteration. I even wonder if such activism is outside their statutory powers?

The New Zealand Wars were one of the most devastating events in Māori and New Zealand history.

I welcome any support by the Prime Minister and government to ensure that it is taught in our schools with appropriate resourcing and provision in the curriculum.

This will help New Zealanders to learn from and to talk about the causes and impacts. We must meaningfully acknowledge and learn from the past, in order for all of us to create the fair and equal society we all want.

To recognise the importance of this day, I am calling for a statutory public holiday.- Meng Foon – Race Relations Commissioner; Facebook

As for calling for a public holiday to “recognise the importance of this day”….what day? What’s he talking about?

Does Commissioner Foon think the Maori Wars happened on a single day?

UPDATE: Commissioner Foon has reacted by changing the poorly thought out wording of the above. Now reads, “To recognise the importance of these events, I am calling for a statutory public holiday.”

Looks like we learned him!

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