ACT: Labour’s civics classes: dodgy dodgy dodgy
Monday, 14 August 2017, 4:38 pm
Press Release: ACT New Zealand
ACT: Labour’s civics classes: dodgy dodgy
dodgy
Labour’s civics classes risk turning into
political indoctrination sessions, says ACT Leader David
Seymour.
“The opposition has failed to mobilise what it
sees as its natural voter base, the young and poor, the so
called missing million. As usual, Labour’s solution to
losing hearts and minds is to force people to care about its
message, through rules, regulations, and Orwellian
re-education.
“Political parties on both sides need to
do better at reaching young people. Handing this job to
teachers is a cop-out. It’s not the state’s job to tell
kids to vote Labour.
“There’s a serious risk of unions
influencing civics class content. Notice how it’s
conspicuously the left pushing for these classes? Labour is
suspicious of religious education in schools, but seems fine
with using the school system to push a political agenda on
other people’s kids.
“ACT will keep political bias out
of our state
schools.”
ENDS
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