April 10, 2024
Truancy and pacifying racist reactionary New Zealand
Posted On April 10, 2024
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Let’s be very clear.
Truancy is incredibly damaging to all our children.
We must endeavor and strive for high school attendance and high educational achievement of that there can be no doubt, but the problem facing Truancy Tzar David Seymour is that his reactionary right wing voting base hate truant children for far more angry and damaged reasons.
To these voters, ‘Truant children’ is code for Māori the same way ‘gang member’ is, and they don’t want a culture of support for those truant children, they want punishment.
These reactionary voters fear truant kids and want fines to the parents.
The irony of the right taking away one of the silver bullets for truancy, free breakfasts and lunches, while demanding more school attendance would be funny if the stakes weren’t so high.
David Seymour may well want to solve the problem of Truancy with well thought out social policy, unfortunately his reactionary voter base want harsh sanctions and retribution.
Bashing Māori, Pacifica, beneficiaries, renters, state tenants, the disabled, gang members, prisoners and renters has political ramifications beyond the immediacy of the Election, it permeates into policy and creates counter productive outcomes that only manage to make the problem worse.
New Zealand requires political leadership, not the implementation of punitive measures to punish the people voters despise.
What we have at the moment is mob rule, not good Government.