And Cindy & Labour are making out as if they have absolutely nothing to do with the $12m for a privileged, elitist & exclusive school for the wealthy when there are thousands of kids in the Taranaki studying in sub-standard classrooms.
SHAME!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12360510
Paywalled
Education Minister Chris Hipkins threw Shaw under the bus. "It's not a project I would have prioritized," he told reporters,
all wide-eyed innocence and bemusement. "Ultimately that was something the Green Party advocated quite strongly for and so it was one of their wins out of the shovel-ready project area."
Ouch. I rather suspect this decision confirms what the Green faithful have known for some time – that James Shaw isn't green enough to be Green. He looks, sounds and acts like someone who could sit quite comfortably on Labour's front bench.
And this decision looks to privilege the education of wealthy international kids over the education of the kids in Patea.
Patea Area School is just an hour and forty down the road but might as well be on another planet. They're doing the best with what they have, but surely some of that $11m could have been used to improve the surroundings and learning environment of the 200 kids at the Decile 1 school.