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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Education unions are reacting badly to Erica Stanford's decision to

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Speaker 2: remove treaty obligations from school board legislation. The Education Minister

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Speaker 2: says boards should be more focused on making sure kids

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Speaker 2: turn up to school rather than carrying out the Crown's

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Speaker 2: treaty responsibilities with us. Now, as the school Board Association

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Speaker 2: president Meredith kennet hime, Meredith, what's your take on this?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much exactly, well, exactly what the unions have

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Speaker 3: said this afternoon is that, you know, I think even

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Speaker 3: if we focus on the responsibility of getting our children

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Speaker 3: to school and attendance and achievement, a part of that

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Speaker 3: is understanding the whole child, and that is also understanding

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Speaker 3: our responsibility to Tetariti.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how does give me an example of how this

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Speaker 1: being in legislation actually changes what a school board does.

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Speaker 3: I think it just allows the school board to focus

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Speaker 3: on making sure that they are covering the things that

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Speaker 3: they need to cover, because for a school board, you

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Speaker 3: have a bunch of caring people who come together and

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Speaker 3: are elected to do a job, and they need to

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Speaker 3: be given quite explicit instructions of what things they need

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Speaker 3: to fulfill and whether it on that list, then it

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Speaker 3: stays front and send different school boards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but like what would they do, what would they

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Speaker 1: really understand?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to make sure that things like our policies and

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Speaker 3: our procedures really consider the history of our children, really

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Speaker 3: consider where farno are coming from. Allows us to connect

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Speaker 3: with local EWI and making sure that the school is

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Speaker 3: fit for purpose for our children. Because our children need

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Speaker 3: to belong and if they don't feel like they do,

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Speaker 3: then they won't to achieve.

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Speaker 1: What's the benefit of a school board connecting with local EWI.

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Speaker 3: To allow them to make sure that the local faro

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Speaker 3: of children are connected to the history of the local area,

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Speaker 3: to understand, you know, where things come from in the

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Speaker 3: place that they are learning, and just to feel that

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Speaker 3: sense of way back in time, there was always a

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Speaker 3: saying of people having to leave their culture at the

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Speaker 3: door and making sure that we give effect to test

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Speaker 3: eating means that our young people are not having to

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Speaker 3: do that.

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Speaker 1: And so how is a school board going to make

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Speaker 1: sure that there is this connection to the history of

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Speaker 1: the place by meeting with the EWE. How are they

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Speaker 1: going to practically do that?

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Speaker 3: Well, for many schools that involves inviting their ee in

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Speaker 3: when they're looking at things like their strategic direction and

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Speaker 3: their plan, so whatever goals that they're having to make

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Speaker 3: sure that both the community and the local ere in

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Speaker 3: it all our lines Meredith. So that's part of it.

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Speaker 1: Shouldn't the goal just be educated as many of these

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Speaker 1: children as possible, make sure they're turning up to school

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Speaker 1: every single day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And a part of that is so the end

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Speaker 3: that we connect to the end. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's biggier than that, is it though?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think my school boards think it is, and

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Speaker 3: along with all the unions.

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Speaker 1: All right, Meredith, Thanks very much, Meredith Kennett, school Board Association.

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