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Monday, May 28, 2012

Bigger is stupider

"The Government has agreed to set up a working party to look at the effect of new class ratio formulas on intermediate and middle schools - effectively an admission it blundered on that aspect of the policy."

Oh, really?

Silly Ms Parata. Now she's blaming 'bad advice' she received for her daft move in declaring that bigger class sizes would benefit New Zealand education.

Ian Leckie has this to say:
"No Government in living memory has made a deliberate decision to increase class sizes. The Budget cuts may help the Government's balance sheet but they come at the expense of our children's learning."

8 comments:

Suz said...

Kiwiblog has a very funny vid on class sizes.

robertguyton said...

Tnks Sz.
Kiwiblog also has some very funny ideas on body sizes :-)
I feel for Farrar's knees.

Suz said...

As your title says, "Bigger is Stupider" :)

robertguyton said...

Ha! Killer!

Towack said...

throwing bricks again at peoples body size ah RG, must be a slow news day ....

robertguyton said...

Just Farrar's, Towack. It's a long-standing in-joke. He may be as slender as a willow-wand these days, for all I know. He did give me a life-time ban for suggesting that his knees were at risk (I'd just read a report that warned of that very thing), and then gave me another (two life-time bans! Record!) for returning under another guise and questioning the veracity of John Key's claims.
Say-lar-vee!

Towack said...

banned ah, you norty norty boy. Straight to the corner for you.

robertguyton said...

I've been in that corner ever since.
Loving it!