Maurie Abraham
@maurieabraham.bsky.social
Recently retired secondary school principal in Aotearoa/NZ who keeps poking his nose in.
We have just got to keep pushing back the best ways we can.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...
Protect Te Tiriti in Education
Aotearoa should be a place where everyone, regardless of their background, is respected and part of a vibrant connected community. Where everyone feels a sense of belonging and knows their children wi...
our.actionstation.org.nz
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
We have just got to keep pushing back the best ways we can.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...
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Erica Stanford wants to link your child’s academic performance to their teacher’s ability to make their mortgage payments.
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Erica Stanford wants to link your child’s academic performance to their teacher’s ability to make their mortgage payments.
I can't believe that in the middle of a climate crisis TVNZ1 news that 25 minutes into their premier news bulletin that this gutting of the Carbon Zero Act has not yet been mentioned www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Greens accuse Government of late-night gutting of Zero Carbon Act
Last night the Government quietly stripped the Climate Change Commission of a job.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I can't believe that in the middle of a climate crisis TVNZ1 news that 25 minutes into their premier news bulletin that this gutting of the Carbon Zero Act has not yet been mentioned www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Seems like a problem with the rules if you can have a financial benefit from 25 properties but structure it so you don't have to declare that interest #nzpol
Registrar of Pecuniary Interests finds that National MP Carl Bates' enormous secret undeclared property portfolio of 25 houses was "within the rules" and did not need to be declared. Also suggests implicitly that those rules should change. bills.parliament.nz/v/4/7a8bd0f8...
House
bills.parliament.nz
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Seems like a problem with the rules if you can have a financial benefit from 25 properties but structure it so you don't have to declare that interest #nzpol
Check out the latest School News magazine promoting the Refresh Reconnect Refocus (RRR) Derek Wenmoth and I are offering school leaders next year. Find further information, including how to register, here futuremakers.nz/services/ref...
November 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Check out the latest School News magazine promoting the Refresh Reconnect Refocus (RRR) Derek Wenmoth and I are offering school leaders next year. Find further information, including how to register, here futuremakers.nz/services/ref...
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Why yes, the way to improve education is to launch an all out assault on the independence of the teaching profession and curriculum and assert political control over it all. Just ask any despot, they’ll agree.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Education Minister's plans for Teaching Council a 'power grab', union says
Education Minister Erica Stanford has announced plans to shrink the council, replace most of its members with ministerial appointees, and remove its role in teacher training.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Why yes, the way to improve education is to launch an all out assault on the independence of the teaching profession and curriculum and assert political control over it all. Just ask any despot, they’ll agree.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Also worth noting this is being slid in at the last minute to avoid scrutiny through submissions and select committee. A purely anti democratic move.
November 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Also worth noting this is being slid in at the last minute to avoid scrutiny through submissions and select committee. A purely anti democratic move.
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And it’s not like we didn’t know it was coming.
Early Warning Signals: Stanford Says She Will Remove Te Tiriti From The Education and Training Act In One Go
On 23 July, 2025, Stanford spoke to Sean Plunket on The Platform. He wanted answers about the place of Te Tiriti in the Act. Plunket: Is it going to stay in there? (from 7 mins) Stanford: … I…
bevanholloway.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And it’s not like we didn’t know it was coming.
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The destruction this govt will leave in their wake when they finally go is immense.
November 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The destruction this govt will leave in their wake when they finally go is immense.
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That's not all she is doing...Treaty and schools: Government to remove requirement for boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi - NZ Herald share.google/PuillpQnHEzl...
Govt to remove requirement for school boards to give effect to Treaty of Waitangi
Boards will still need to try to achieve equitable outcomes for Māori.
share.google
November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
That's not all she is doing...Treaty and schools: Government to remove requirement for boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi - NZ Herald share.google/PuillpQnHEzl...
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Blows my mind that people think that it doesn’t damage our nations soul to not honour Te Tiriti
The coalition is taking our soul and trading it for military equipment and a low wage economy. That’s Seymour’s dream and it is awful for us and our children
The coalition is taking our soul and trading it for military equipment and a low wage economy. That’s Seymour’s dream and it is awful for us and our children
Elizabeth Rata wanted it gone, and so it is done.
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Blows my mind that people think that it doesn’t damage our nations soul to not honour Te Tiriti
The coalition is taking our soul and trading it for military equipment and a low wage economy. That’s Seymour’s dream and it is awful for us and our children
The coalition is taking our soul and trading it for military equipment and a low wage economy. That’s Seymour’s dream and it is awful for us and our children
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And just in from Seymour.
This is the intent. Forget whatever flowery words Erica uses. They want your child growing up in a NZ that is blind to its history. That’s not learning, it’s indoctrination.
This is the intent. Forget whatever flowery words Erica uses. They want your child growing up in a NZ that is blind to its history. That’s not learning, it’s indoctrination.
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
And just in from Seymour.
This is the intent. Forget whatever flowery words Erica uses. They want your child growing up in a NZ that is blind to its history. That’s not learning, it’s indoctrination.
This is the intent. Forget whatever flowery words Erica uses. They want your child growing up in a NZ that is blind to its history. That’s not learning, it’s indoctrination.
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#NZpol
"Why does this curriculum bear no relationship to their words? The students know. One said afterwards that this curriculum shows the system doesn’t care about them."
"Why does this curriculum bear no relationship to their words? The students know. One said afterwards that this curriculum shows the system doesn’t care about them."
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
#NZpol
"Why does this curriculum bear no relationship to their words? The students know. One said afterwards that this curriculum shows the system doesn’t care about them."
"Why does this curriculum bear no relationship to their words? The students know. One said afterwards that this curriculum shows the system doesn’t care about them."
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Once you hear from anyone with experience of trying to engage with this Govt over their magic beans curriculum rewrite, you understand that what they’ve presented is something written by people too ignorant to understand how much they don’t understand but possessed of the confidence of fools.
October 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Once you hear from anyone with experience of trying to engage with this Govt over their magic beans curriculum rewrite, you understand that what they’ve presented is something written by people too ignorant to understand how much they don’t understand but possessed of the confidence of fools.
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Yeah, the curriculum
Stanford has released is #notourcurriculum and shows is exactly who this govt is, but as the @aec.org.nz gather in Wellington today to set up for conference, just know that we are strong and united in fighting for an education that doesn’t erase our kids’ pasts and futures.
Stanford has released is #notourcurriculum and shows is exactly who this govt is, but as the @aec.org.nz gather in Wellington today to set up for conference, just know that we are strong and united in fighting for an education that doesn’t erase our kids’ pasts and futures.
October 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Yeah, the curriculum
Stanford has released is #notourcurriculum and shows is exactly who this govt is, but as the @aec.org.nz gather in Wellington today to set up for conference, just know that we are strong and united in fighting for an education that doesn’t erase our kids’ pasts and futures.
Stanford has released is #notourcurriculum and shows is exactly who this govt is, but as the @aec.org.nz gather in Wellington today to set up for conference, just know that we are strong and united in fighting for an education that doesn’t erase our kids’ pasts and futures.
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I'm reading the new Social Sciences curriculum content and I wasn't prepared for how sad I would feel. We spent thousands of hours working with the previous iteration and the NZ history content and all that enthusiasm and excitement was just killed for something so bad.
October 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm reading the new Social Sciences curriculum content and I wasn't prepared for how sad I would feel. We spent thousands of hours working with the previous iteration and the NZ history content and all that enthusiasm and excitement was just killed for something so bad.
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One of the reasons I’m excited to teach high school Social Sciences and History in Aotearoa New Zealand is the curriculum that integrates the value and lessons to be drawn from ALL of the country’s past. But this government ruins everything it touches and I’m too furious for words.
October 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
One of the reasons I’m excited to teach high school Social Sciences and History in Aotearoa New Zealand is the curriculum that integrates the value and lessons to be drawn from ALL of the country’s past. But this government ruins everything it touches and I’m too furious for words.
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I am angry, sad, disappointed, shocked, in disbelief but also not surprised.
I am angry, sad, disappointed, shocked, in disbelief but also not surprised.
Recolonising Te Mātaiaho
How the new version walks back the promise of the original
aecnz.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
aecnz.substack.com/p/recolonisi...
I am angry, sad, disappointed, shocked, in disbelief but also not surprised.
I am angry, sad, disappointed, shocked, in disbelief but also not surprised.
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The wholesale gutting of the curriculum shows enormous disrespect to all those who engaged in the development process in good faith.
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The wholesale gutting of the curriculum shows enormous disrespect to all those who engaged in the development process in good faith.
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Educators cannot believe the shit they are expected to swallow from this government.
School curriculum criticism grows: 'A total lack of understanding of our disciplines'
Maths education experts say recent changes to the maths curriculum "seem more political than educational".
www.rnz.co.nz
October 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Educators cannot believe the shit they are expected to swallow from this government.
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"Takes politics out of history" because no politics ever happened in history, can they even hear themselves
Don't see the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum online yet. But Act are already crowing about having gutted it.
community.scoop.co.nz/2025/10/new-...
community.scoop.co.nz/2025/10/new-...
Community Scoop » New Curriculum Takes Politics Out Of History
community.scoop.co.nz
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"Takes politics out of history" because no politics ever happened in history, can they even hear themselves
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Today is Rā Maumahara, the national day of commemoration for the New Zealand Wars and anniversary of the signing of He Whakaputanga.
Act marked the occasion by sending out an email with the subject line "Aotearoa Histories Curriculum is History".
Can we expect "Poppies banned!" for ANZAC day? 🤦♀️
Act marked the occasion by sending out an email with the subject line "Aotearoa Histories Curriculum is History".
Can we expect "Poppies banned!" for ANZAC day? 🤦♀️
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Today is Rā Maumahara, the national day of commemoration for the New Zealand Wars and anniversary of the signing of He Whakaputanga.
Act marked the occasion by sending out an email with the subject line "Aotearoa Histories Curriculum is History".
Can we expect "Poppies banned!" for ANZAC day? 🤦♀️
Act marked the occasion by sending out an email with the subject line "Aotearoa Histories Curriculum is History".
Can we expect "Poppies banned!" for ANZAC day? 🤦♀️
