Posts by Robbie Siataga
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*grabs popcorn, sits back and waits for an arse shredding and handing back ceremony of biblical proportions*
i got 5 on the bedraggled teddy bear looking dude :)
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I'd welcome written reasons why some creator/performer/group/genre/industry are deserving of funding and others not, by the people that choose who gets funded.
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auckland...wheres it at ?
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/5162/freakina.jpg
it ain't the capital eh :)
comic sans FTW !!!
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On a personal note. I prefer my radio with pictures, reading peoples opinions, watching interviews live and making my own music selections in the car...
...in short, FUCK RADIO !!!
It's all about teh interwebz and i'd wager teh yoofs feel the same way, unless they can win a free cd or concert tickets...
...and while i'm in fuck you mode, i'd like to add NZoA and Creative NZ music funding to the list
thanx for your time :)
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Practically, I doubt this rushed change has allowed any time to translate and verify the material and concepts.
I hope so Sacha and that its not tit for tat.
ie...Key says 'exclude private schools' so Turia says 'well exclude kura then too'.
Even so, standard tests would require them being in english, of which kura does teach as a second language.
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Nice one Emma.
My eldest daughter just graduated from Nelson girls last year but not before a crisis in confidence going into the last term about whether she'd done enough to amass the required credits and pass the exams.
She was in the process of signing out from school when the grandparents intervened and with an old family friend, who was one of her teachers, explained just what she needed to do and where to get her credits from, to just concentrate on what she knew in the exams and write about them in greater detail to the exclusion of waffling on about what she didnt know.
She still had to study damn hard and in the end passed with merit. I was so proud of her because I took her to be the best judge of her abilty to pass or fail and was supporting whatever decision she made (she had a part time retail job which was looking to take her on full time) when she opted to leave school without seeing out her final year.
Shes pretty chuffed about gaining university entrance ( in old school terms) too and we both learned some valuable lessons about ourselves which I plan to put in practise with the rest of the kids.
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Well, we do know what happens in discovery-based high schools. Kids pick projects they want to do, and then their Learning Advisors work out how to get NCEA credits out of them, across multiple subjects.
Sounds grand if a bit dodgy. Would stand them in good stead if they ever wanted to become politicians though:)
So does anybody know what happens in wharekura (total immersion maori high school) ?
Nah, me neither and I put my kids though kura kaupapa but mainstreamed them for their final high school years because I lacked the confidence in the teachers, the system and the reporting back/ accounting for kids learning.
My kids did develop awesome family values and a strong and vital sense of who they are and how they fit into New Zealand though, plus they're fluent in maori.
There was a worry on mainstreaming them that they'd suffer in english grammar but they didn't. Maths was their weak point. More so because it's a language of numbers and at high school level even the teachers were struggling with transliterating higher concepts.
Shame on Turia for exempting kura from national standards. If any schools need it it's kura.
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An others thoughts about the treaty and more about whether maori know what they are doing now and into the future...
http://pollywannacracka.blogspot.com/2010/02/trick-of-treatyahhh-flag-it.html
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my cousin went to middleton grange and she was quite the lil slapper though you'd never know to look at her:)