Flockton speaks

"Politicians are manufacturing alarm and crisis in the minds of parents in order to justify their great fix policies, when in fact things aren't broken."

Lester Flockton knows his education stuff and those hearing his message, the New Zealand Principals' Association at their Queenstown conference, know he's right.
Flockton has spent 17 years as a founding director of the National Education Monitoring Project at Otago University. He's calling 'foul' on the national standards and the politicians who are forcing it into place.
They'll ignore him at their peril.
In other news ... the Southland Primary Principals Association say that the new standards policy is "irreconcilably flawed, confused and unworkable". They've, bless them, come out in support of their Auckland peers, who levelled strong criticism at the Government's plans earlier this week.
You've mucked up Ms Tolley!