Curriculum changes, Education Act amendments and the art of misdirection
It is interesting that exactly when school leaders up and down the country are grappling with an onslaught of curriculum changes there is a fundamental change to our education system being proposed. I suspect the timing is in partly due to the pace the current government likes to operate at, but part of me also wonders that proposing such significant changes exactly whilst school leaders are being absorbed by curriculum updates could also be by design. Is this coincidence or is it a classic case of misdirection?? Did you you know that we have until Monday 14th October to respond to proposed amendments to the Education Act that will fundamentally change what we are legislated to focus on and prioritise within our schools. The way the proposals and questions are laid out strike me as minimising what an absolutely fundamental shift we are about to be hit with. For example the removal of "giving effect to Te Tiriti' as a primary objective being sold as a "move" desig...