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Speaker 1: But a pushback coming from some sectors of the education business.

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Speaker 1: I note towards the reading, writing, and maths tests. Now,

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Speaker 1: these are the tests we're failing. Those failing most come

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Speaker 1: from poor backgrounds. I'm not sure equating monetary status and

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Speaker 1: academic success should be a thing, But a bunch of

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Speaker 1: principles from quote unquote the poorest communities have got together

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Speaker 1: to lobby the government to stop these tests because it

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Speaker 1: will lead to more kids leading school with no qualifications. Now,

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Speaker 1: after two rounds of these tests, more than half failed

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Speaker 1: reading and writing, seventy five percent failed numeracy. You can't

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Speaker 1: get universe in the entrance if you don't get these

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Speaker 1: great Now, there is no doubt that failure affects attitude,

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Speaker 1: and there is equally no doubt that for some the

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Speaker 1: sort of the gived up scenario must be tempting if

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Speaker 1: the hurdle is too high. But then it's also no

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Speaker 1: doubt that allowing kids to leave school having failed is

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Speaker 1: a failure in and of itself, and that any country

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Speaker 1: that has any level of success globally is not a

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Speaker 1: country that goes soft on education. The principle's answer is

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Speaker 1: the answer that has failed, as for years the Chris

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Speaker 1: Sipkin's COVID answer, give them something for nothing. Alternative to

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Speaker 1: an exam is an extra twenty credits scenario that's due

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Speaker 1: to expire at the end of twenty twenty seven. They

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Speaker 1: want that made permanent, and instead of twenty credits, they

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Speaker 1: want it made into sixty credits. Like Hipkins and COVID,

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Speaker 1: you remember that extra credits for not actually doing anything,

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Speaker 1: just just extra credits for life being a bit crap. Now,

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Speaker 1: no one gains when we do this. It's excuse making.

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Speaker 1: It's an acceptance that we fail and are failing, and

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Speaker 1: failure is part of what we do. You can either

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Speaker 1: read or write or you can't. You can either add

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Speaker 1: up or you can't. And if you can't, having people

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Speaker 1: pretend you can doesn't actually fix anything. Part of why

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Speaker 1: this country is where it is is because we're apologists

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Speaker 1: scenarios like this, and instead of being determined to fix it,

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Speaker 1: we set about looking for ways to excuse it. For

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