Mike's Minute: Some more woke-enforced nonsense reversed

In a move you could have seen coming from the moment it was first announced, or if you couldn’t see it coming you hoped it would come, Auckland University has decided its Waipapa Taumata Rau course will now be optional instead of compulsory. 

For a generation who have been appallingly let down over the Covid period by Government and education decisions, the Auckland University desire to force you into Māori courses seemed not just ill advised, but cruel. 

Kids of the past half dozen years have been soaked, to the point of drowning, in Māori issues and doctrine in their schooling and they are sick of it. 

The Labour Government's obsession with race has had the opposite effect intended. It didn’t cajole and encourage, it rammed and forced and overwhelmed us with condescending overlord-type instruction. 

University is not about being told what to learn, it was supposed to be the opposite. 

From our personal experience this year it appeared to us that the course was not just ill conceived, but shonkily run by people barely qualified to deliver a curriculum that seemed largely made up with no real focus or discipline. 

Students hated it, resented it, and were dragged kicking and screaming through it. 

Not just that, but to add insult to injury you had to pay for it. They forced you into it, then sent you a bill. 

As in all these areas of race the trick has always been that if you seek it, want it, desire it, whether broader study or the specific language, it's freely available and fill your boots. 

But the determination to square peg it only ever led to pushback and resentment. 

The last thing I would have thought universities wanted to do was put people off study. 

Once again from personal experience, we know people who not only avoided Auckland University, but in fact ended up studying offshore. None of this is a desirable outcome for the country. 

The upside is when asked by the university the feedback was as you would have expected. And to their credit they have at least read the room and backed off. 

But not before another year for thousands has been lost in a whirlpool of woke-enforced nonsense that never had to be. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In a move you could have seen coming from the
moment it was first announced, really, or if you couldn't
see it coming, you were hoping it would come. Auckland
University has decided it's why Papa Tamatarrah course will now
be optional instead of compulsory. So for a generation who've
been appallingly let down over the COVID period by the
government and education decisions, the Auckland University desire to force

(00:21):
you into MARI courses seem not just ill advised but cruel.
Kids of the past half dozen years have been soaked
to the point of drowning in MARI issues and doctrine
in their schooling and they are, I can tell you
sick of it. The Labour Government's obsession with race has
had the opposite effect intended. It didn't cajole and encourage,
It rammed, enforced and overwhelmed us with condescending, over lord

(00:42):
type instruction. University is not about being told what to learn.
It was supposed to be the opposite, and from our
personal experience this year, it appeared to us that the
course was not even well run. It was ill conceived,
shonckly run by people barely qualified to deliver a curriculum
that seemed largely made up with no real focus or discipline.
Students hated it. They resented it. They were dragged, kicking
and screaming through it. Not just that, but to add

(01:04):
insult to injury, you had to pay for it. They
forced you into it, then sent you a bill. As
in all these areas of race, the trick has always
been that if you seek it, if you want it,
if you desire it, whether broader study or specific language skills,
it's freely available. Fill your boots. But the determination to
square Peggott only ever led to pushback and resemble. The
last thing I would have thought universities wanted to do

(01:27):
was put people off study. Once again, from personal experience,
we know people who not only avoided Auckland University but
in fact ended up studying offshore. And none of this
is a desirable outcome for the country upside. When asked
by the university, the feedback was as you would have expected,
and to their credit, I guess they've at least read
the room and backed off. But not before another year,
for thousands had been lost in a whirlpool of woke

(01:49):
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