1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,679 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Tell you what I like about 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: the educators winging away as they had been this week 3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: over won the curriculum redo and to the treaty treatment 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: is they are at least standing their ground. They're having 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: their say, and that's no bad thing. Struck me yesterday 6 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: when I read Roger Graves speak Roger Grave auckland Port, 7 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: when he talked of No Zealand, of naysayers, of the 8 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: cruise people he visited in Miami and their view of 9 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 1: New Zealand not wanting a cruise industry of just Cindra 10 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: done call him Petrie Dishes. Where were the Roger Grays 11 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: when she was actually in charge in wrecking the joint? Huh? 12 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: The educators at least are bold enough to tell the 13 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 1: current government they don't like what's going on. But where 14 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 1: was the business community as their companies were being shafted 15 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 1: in the prizes for gonads and backbone. The educators win 16 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: hands down. Not that they're right, of course, and in 17 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,160 Speaker 1: that is the gargantu and irony. The educators complained about 18 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: rules and change and yet irrefutably on the wrong side 19 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: of history given the education outcomes produced in this country. 20 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: And yet businesses. Business was nowhere near nowhere to be 21 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: seen or heard, despite the fact that we all knew 22 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: the country was being strangled by power freaks and they 23 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: would eventually be proven to be right. But as much 24 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: as I defend an educator's right to speak up, there 25 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: is something deeply insidious about the way educators, particularly unions, operate. 26 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: Don't you think the list, the list these signatories, the 27 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: signatories of principles who have signed this protest to the 28 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: Education Minister over the curriculum change is driven by the 29 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: Education Minister told us by the unions. And it's a 30 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: standover tactic. It's an intimidatory play. You're bullied, you're harried, 31 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: you're cajoled into signing, hence she claims you then ring 32 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: her up and tell you sign reluctantly. That sadly says 33 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 1: something about a principle that acts out of fear, sort 34 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: of like business, hating the decision but saying nothing. Fear 35 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: is no way to live your life. But for some 36 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: I get it. I mean life issured. Who needs the grief? 37 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: But if that is the mentality in education, if that 38 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: is the modus operandi of the unions, what sort of 39 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: will there are kids entering into what sort of brainwashing, 40 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: whether overt or subliminal, do our kids get subjected to 41 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: the Minister in telling us all this on Tuesday said 42 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: it's disgusting, and she said it with passion. It's disgusting. 43 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: Anyone want to disagree with that. For more from the 44 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to News Talks at B 45 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.