Parata gets slammed!

"Tena Koe Minister Hekia Parata
I pen this Open Email to you, with the purpose of saying respectfully that your arguments re: the proposed changes to class numbers, staffing ratios are so false, that you must be aware that they have little to do with doing what is right for children. Rather they have more to do with politicians using glib phrases to try and justify the further ruination of an education system, that was once the best in the world. Minister it is not you and your colleagues, nor is it me and my colleagues who will suffer from your changes. It is the children of this nation!"

Thus begins the open-email letter to Education Minister Hekia Parata from her old school mate and now

Principal Pat Newman T.T.C. Dip Ed(Waikato) B.Ed(Massey) Dip.Tchg, ANZPF.

There's plenty more reading in the email and I invite you to go to The Standard to read the remainder. You too, Parata, if you're reading :-)