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Term One Report Card for Hekia Parata
Term One Report Card for Hekia
Parata
| Assignment | Teacher’s Comments | Grade |
| Handling of concerns
about the spending of taxpayer money by the Kōhanga Reo
National Trust and its subsidiary arm Te Pataka Ohanga. This
includes her late night press conference where she said she
was “satisfied public money was spent in an appropriate
way” before referring the matter to the Serious Fraud
Office the following day.
| Hekia needs to improve her media and reading skills. | E |
| Interview with The Herald
suggesting she was considering performance-based decile
funding. Again, she was forced into damage control the
following day and had to retract her comments.
| Hekia talks too much. Needs to work on her grammar and simplify her vocabulary. | D |
| Deciding the future
of Phillipstown School. The minister’s initial decision in
2013 to merge the school was declared ‘unlawful and
invalid’ by the High Court. Two days later she was forced
to agree not to proceed with any irreversible merger due to
further High Court action.
| Hekia must improve her engagement with the community and education sector. | D |
| Fixing the flawed school
payroll system Novopay. The cost of this failed experiment
will reach $43 million by mid-year. School staff still work
long hours to mitigate errors and teachers hold their breath
every pay cycle, hoping they will be paid correctly. This
was a joint assignment with Steven Joyce.
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| Hekia needs to develop her financial literacy and computer skills. | F |
| NZQA returning hundreds
of exam booklets to the wrong students. Hekia has hid this
from the public since January and only acknowledged the
botch-up after it was revealed by media.
| Hekia needs to improve her organisational skills. | C- |
| Overall Term One result | Must do better | Fail |
| Principal’s comment: I am concerned Hekia has been drifting and has shown no improvement this term. I believe she should consider seeking the help of a careers counsellor. |
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