{"id":4072,"date":"2023-04-18T03:42:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2023-04-18T03:42:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:42:07","slug":"class-sizes-ratio-announcement-a-slap-in-the-face-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4072","title":{"rendered":"Class sizes ratio announcement a ‘slap in the face’ – principal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A primary school principal has labelled the government’s class size policy a “slap in the face”, saying the education minister must be “crazy” if she thinks it will help existing teachers or attract new ones.<\/p>\n

Jan Tinetti\u00a0earlier on Monday<\/a>\u00a0announced $106 million to put more 320 teachers into classes teaching years four to eight, dropping the average class size for those years from 29 pupils per teacher, to 28.<\/p>\n

The goal was not expected to be met until 2025, Tinetti saying she was “not happy with the downward trends we are seeing in maths, reading and writing”.<\/p>\n

The election-year promise was met with incredulousness by the principal of one lower-decile school, who said it should have been a reduction of five – not one.<\/p>\n

“I just think it’s ludicrous,” Finlayson Park School principal Shirley Maihi told\u00a0Checkpoint<\/em>. “I think it’s a slap in the face. And it certainly won’t entice people to come into the teaching profession.”<\/p>\n

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A primary school principal has labelled the government’s class size policy a “slap in the face”, saying the education minister must be “crazy” if she thinks it will help existing teachers or attract new ones. Jan Tinetti\u00a0earlier on Monday\u00a0announced $106 million to put more 320 teachers into classes teaching years four to eight, dropping the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}