Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Veteran teacher, Bea Yates is urging the Education Minister
to ensure that the $63 million being injected into education
to tackle disruptive behaviour in classrooms
and raise achievement levels
is spent wisely.
'Aunty Bea' has been a teaching for 50 years and she says
it's great that the National Government
has put these funds aside in their Budget.
These are the types of classrooms the Government is aiming for,
as a result of a $63 million injection
to tackle disruptive behaviour.
Our priority isn't about funds,
our priority is the child's well-being.
Education Minister Hekia Parata
revealed in a pre-budget announcement
the Government would spend an additional $80.5mil over four years,
with $63.6mil going on positive behaviour for learning programmes.
Aunty Bea has been working with troubled youth for over 50 years,
some well-off and some not.
She says in most cases, the problem that starts at home.
Teachers' unions have previously raised concerns
about classroom violence.
But this Kura Kaupapa Maori principal says
the remedy is quite simple.
The child needs to know who they are and where they're from.
Even though funding has increased in the classroom,
these teachers believe the change
needs to correspond outside the classroom and the school.
Parents need a chance at getting an income to put food on the table.
The injection increases the overall funding to $145 million.
Kereama Wright, Te Karere.