Posts by Hilary Stace
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So a new report shows National Standards haven't worked. Can we say we told you so? Sad that for many students a potential love of learning and self esteem have been sacrificed in this experiment. I heard from a principal recently how parents tell him, in front of the child, that the child is below standard. The child might be great at art or music or PE but the parent only cares about the national standards results in literacy and numeracy.
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Aahh the myth that good quality, well paying, well supported jobs are out there for everybody - just waiting for the lazy, ill or disabled person to start looking.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
I think (not sure though in this context) that some disabled people object to non disabled people saying they have lived experience of disability although that is through caring for someone who is disabled rather than personal impairment. Sometimes parents use that term for eg lived experience of autism, although it is the children who have the lived experience of autism They have lived experience of parenting a child with autism.
So probably it was just unclear whose lived experience is being referred to. So the phrase they used clarifies who they are talking about.
But you could go along to a meeting and ask.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Do consider engaging. I think there has been an effort to bring some good people together in the reference group and not just do the same old stuff.
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Time to get rid of the Minimum Wage Exemption, will the CYF review make a difference for disabled kids, the 'conversation' in May about the new Disability Strategy and other disability policy issues.
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Don't forget that Helensville was going to have lots of new state houses but it was in the PM's electorate so that had to go.
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I have just been to a lecture where a male member of the audience said we should tax fat people as they cause the 'obesity problem' (rather than sugary drinks or any other action). The audience, mainly of slim academics and policy people, giggled a bit and no one called him out on his dangerous eugenic attitudes. (One answer could have been that with that logic old people should be taxed more because of their increased costs to the public health system.) I was surprised how angry and shocked I was hearing such attitudes so casually expressed. I mention this because this is the effect of those such as WO blog on the public discourse and the general demeaning of whole groups of humans which seems to be encouraged by the privileged and powerful at the moment.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber driver, in reply to Erin,
There is a specialist wheelchair taxi service in Wellington consisting of one man and a van. I think most of his work is via Total Mobility. He is very nice and helpful and gets to know his regular clients and their particularly needs. This is a good model for a Wellington-sized city.
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Up now. That was very interesting. Good to hear your audible voice (as opposed to the written one)
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Ben explaining all this on Radio NZ's Nine to Noon right now. So multi-media!