As we type this, we're listening to Frances Nelson from NZEI being interviewed by Paul Henry on Breakfast. NZEI is complaining about teachers having to dip into their own pockets to buy classroom resources and extras. NZEI's complaint is that schools are underfunded, and that teachers are having to bridge the gap themselves.
So here's a question to Frances Nelson and NZEI. Is this a NEW phenomenon, or did NZEI's concerns exist prior to November 2008? And if the answer is the latter, where were NZEI's media releases and public outrage whilst schools were being under-resourced by the former Labour government?
Wethinks they do protest too much!
3 comments:
Firstly, money is tight in schools. Especially for primary schools there is not alot of money to lay with.
The problem depends on the school. Some schools run a tight ship with money and give staff photocopying budgets and a restricted art supply. You then use that how you want.
Other schools, like the one I'm in now, aren't so restrictive in these ares.
As a teacher I believe this is actually a management issue. It is a problem for schools and respective BOT to deal with not the MOE.
Want more paint to make your classroom look good - dont wste your money with MAC computers. Want more PE equipment, then you have to sacrifice in other areas.
Sorry forgot to mention. This problem has been going on for years. But you already knew that!!!
"But you already knew that!!!"
Suspected, more like. I'm just suspicious when the NZEI lambasts a National government for something which may have also been happening when a union-friendly Labour government held the purse-strings.
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