PPTA congratulates ministry for firm stance

Media Release
24 April 2012
PPTA congratulates ministry for firm stance

PPTA president Robin Duff congratulates education minister Hekia Parata for taking a firm stand against the board of Northland’s Moerewa School .

The board was sacked yesterday after extending classes to years 11 and 13 without the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) permission, with seriously questionable results.

“Primary schools may have the best of intentions, but it is wrong for them to believe they can adequately provide specialist subject delivery to students over year 9,” Duff said.

“They may provide a warm and nurturing environment, but PPTA has warned for years that primary schools retaining students after year 9 denies them the specialised support they need.”

It was a flaw of the Tomorrow’s Schools system that schools like Moerewa forgot they were not independent states, but responsible to the tax-payer and subject to taxpayer expectations, Duff said.

The credibility of the NCEA qualification is undermined for all schools if individual schools chose to ignore accreditation requirements.

“PPTA definitely supports any move to quash that,” Duff said.

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