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Speaker 1: Good father do to see Ellen all. That's quite the

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Speaker 1: crackdown on the truancye from David Seymour, isn't it. Jeez.

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Speaker 1: Don't expect this to go down with the go down

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Speaker 1: well with the teacher unions. So the first thing that

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Speaker 1: David Seamols announced is that he's coming for the parents.

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Speaker 1: He's going to bring in the possibility of enforcing fines

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Speaker 1: on parents who don't send their kids to school. Now

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent the excuse makers in this country are

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Speaker 1: going to have a problem with this because it's picking

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Speaker 1: on the vulnerable, et cetera, et cetera. Let me tell

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Speaker 1: you something. School is compulsory in New Zealand. If it's

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Speaker 1: compulsory and you don't do it, generally, how that works

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Speaker 1: is you get punished. A fine is your punishment. That's

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Speaker 1: how compulsion works, right, There's no point in having it

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Speaker 1: be compulsory and ask go, well it's compulsory. If we're

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Speaker 1: not well, then prepared to also punish someone for not

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Speaker 1: doing the compulsory thing. And the fine is not new.

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Speaker 1: But it's not like David Seymore's dreamed up a fine here.

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Speaker 1: These fines are already on the books. They already exist. Parents

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Speaker 1: can already be fined thirty bucks a day if they

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Speaker 1: don't send their kids to school, potentially up to three

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Speaker 1: thousand bucks. They are recidivis defenders. It's just that currently,

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Speaker 1: for the longest time, the finds have not been enforced. Now,

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Speaker 1: the second thing that David Seymour is doing is that

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Speaker 1: he's scrapping teacher only days during term times. Schools at

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Speaker 1: the moment have to have to hold the teacher under

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Speaker 1: these new rules, not even new rules. Under this direction,

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Speaker 1: schools will have to hold the teacher only days in

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Speaker 1: term breaks now one hundred percent the school. The teacher

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Speaker 1: unions are going to complain about this, but again again

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Speaker 1: this is not new. According to David Seymour's office. The

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Speaker 1: law already says that teacher only days should only be

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Speaker 1: held during breaks right, not during term time. And if

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Speaker 1: they have to be held during term time, they can

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Speaker 1: only be held with the permission of the Ministry of Education.

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Speaker 1: But things have just got a bit ropy here, haven't they.

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Speaker 1: So all David Seymour is doing here is reminding us

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Speaker 1: all what the rules already are and trying to get

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Speaker 1: us to follow the existing rules. And the fact that

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Speaker 1: this is coming across as quite a big crackdown I

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Speaker 1: think tells you how loose we've up with respecting education.

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