Without getting into the details of the scheme, I call the efforts by the Government, through Anne Tolley, to introduce the national standards scheme a failure, because it created resentment. A far better result could have been achieved by developing an atmosphere of trust and confidence amongst the teachers and principals who would be most affected by the new scheme, but the Minister failed miserably to do that. The resentment that followed the mishandling by Tolley and the attacks on teacher's credibility by both her and Key have done a great deal of damage to relations between all parties involved. It could and should have been done very differently.
F for fail.
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Some of our teachers are about to send out their first Nat standards reports. For some of the kids who have been at school for just over two months the reports read Below, Below, Below. I wonder what effect that will have on the psyche of parents before their children have had a chance to succeed?
Kneecapped while they're just getting up to walk.
Who'd have thought there'd be such inintended consequences Ms Tolley.
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