A few thoughts bubbling around after the leaders debate, the last most chilling:
How logical is it to say we need tried and tested Labour to manage the current world-wide financial crisis, when the books were done prior to the meltdown to reveal 10 years of deficits and doubling of unemployment? That’s bad financial management. In a period of world-wide good times, we slipped on the OECD rankings.
Also, Clarke's stab at Key being too new for the job compared to Helen, and her cabinet of long time career politicians…and then to complain that Key’s cabinet would be filled with ... long time career politicians. Ooh err.
Mostly though, did anyone notice that Helen Clark wants to introduce “testing” and evaluation of children prior to starting school to see if they are emotionally adjusted or not? And she had the gall to complain about John Key wanting to test for literacy.
I can see a new level of Cindy Kiro’s master plan of profiling every child according to the anti-family leftist “are they on Ritalin yet” management of “problem” children.
Has anyone been tracking this policy, or is this a new entrant to the election? Let's find out how much money will be spent, what the test questions are, who the people are that will be doing these psych profiles on our children and who looks after the information? Shades of Cindy Kiro and her master plan to manage every child.
Ironically, Clark got annoyed at the "nanny state" accusation over the latest government plan to regulate shower flow rates, and doesn't understand that even to have such issues raised by a growing bureaucracy is the problem, not the rights and wrongs over a small matter. But the above new policy on child profiling is totally nanny state, and it continues the slide into madness.
Related Link [Satire]: Leave No Commissioner Behind
Related Link: Scrubone comments too: Key Winner
How logical is it to say we need tried and tested Labour to manage the current world-wide financial crisis, when the books were done prior to the meltdown to reveal 10 years of deficits and doubling of unemployment? That’s bad financial management. In a period of world-wide good times, we slipped on the OECD rankings.
Also, Clarke's stab at Key being too new for the job compared to Helen, and her cabinet of long time career politicians…and then to complain that Key’s cabinet would be filled with ... long time career politicians. Ooh err.
Mostly though, did anyone notice that Helen Clark wants to introduce “testing” and evaluation of children prior to starting school to see if they are emotionally adjusted or not? And she had the gall to complain about John Key wanting to test for literacy.
I can see a new level of Cindy Kiro’s master plan of profiling every child according to the anti-family leftist “are they on Ritalin yet” management of “problem” children.
Has anyone been tracking this policy, or is this a new entrant to the election? Let's find out how much money will be spent, what the test questions are, who the people are that will be doing these psych profiles on our children and who looks after the information? Shades of Cindy Kiro and her master plan to manage every child.
Ironically, Clark got annoyed at the "nanny state" accusation over the latest government plan to regulate shower flow rates, and doesn't understand that even to have such issues raised by a growing bureaucracy is the problem, not the rights and wrongs over a small matter. But the above new policy on child profiling is totally nanny state, and it continues the slide into madness.
Related Link [Satire]: Leave No Commissioner Behind
Related Link: Scrubone comments too: Key Winner