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Why do you think America is a model country?
If you want tough on crime, tough on abortions etc then simply move there.
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It's not ordinary NZers who have woken up to the fact that Ardern & her clueless mob have been conning them - leftists like Chris Trotter & journalists are waking up to that fact as well.
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So National want to bring back a Boot Camp policy which costs $250,000 per teenager & a minimum failure rate of 85%.
That means its ROI is $1.75 million per successful kid who didn't straightaway go back to ram raiding or some other repeat offending.
A cost of $1.75 million per kid & that's ok with the Nat supporters?
I thought National were all about the govt wasting taxpayers money, going line by line through spending so we won't have to borrow or cut services to fund tax cuts?
The fundamental drivers of street crime are inequality, marginalisation (i.e. nothing to lose) & insecure living arrangements ( parents/caregivers & housing ).
And many of theses kids have mental health issues like ADHD. Obviously putting them in a military style boot camp is a complete waste of time & huge expense.
And as if the Army is going to want to, or are qualified to have to deal with these kids.
I see no evidence the cotton wool system is working to the advantage of those you are referring to.
Chris Luxon has been attacking school principals & now parents about school attendance & often repeats the statistic that 60% of kids weren't attending school regularly (in the second term) so I thought its worth fact checking this as it sounds alarming.
I understand that under the guidelines, to be defined as attending school regularly, you have to attend school for 90% or more days of the term.
A term is approx 10 weeks or 50 school days. So any more than 5 days off in a whole term falls into that category.
When you put that into context of the winter term when there was a spike in covid & flu with sick kids having to stay home, it doesn't sound that unusual from any other previous year.
Latest attendance rates for the period 7-11 November when a large number of school kids are on examination study leave had a high of 85.7% & a low of 81.4%.
https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/...1-Nov_2022.pdf
Education - this is the results of Ardern’s big plan to merge the polytechnics :
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/edu...5m-from-budget
Spend ever more money to achieve ever less.