And again for no reason. Nobody was complaining about those words. Not the teachers, not the students, not the parents. The only reason she did this is because she is racist and she wants to throw a bone to the racists who vote for her party.

My initial post was that we had a bad experience with a specific book. When I boil that down, it was because the book had too many new words.

you experience is based on the fact that your child is suffering from a learning disability. You are demanding that because your child is incapable of dealing with maori words no child of the same age should be exposed those maori words. I am saying this is not just immoral and foolish but it's downright evil. We should not deny every student of educational materials that you child is unable to cope with.

[–] deadbeef@lemmy.nz 0 points 8 months ago

Nobody was complaining about those words. Not the teachers, not the students, not the parents.

I'm a parent, my child is a student.

you experience is based on the fact that your child is suffering from a learning disability. You are demanding that because your child is incapable of dealing with maori words no child of the same age should be exposed those maori words.

My child isn't diagnosed with any learning disability and I'm not demanding anything. I am offering our real world experience.

There are about five kids in my sons class who are really struggling with reading out of a little less than 30 kids. Our school would have been a lower decile school back when that was still a thing.

You are deluded if you think small changes in the first year or so of a reading program is going to stop kids from being exposed to Te Reo in primary schools.

I started making a list of all the ways kids build their Te Reo vocabulary at my sons school and then I decided you probably don't care