Daily review 11/05/2023

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  1. Joe90 1
    11 May 2023 at 7:42 pm

    Poot's statement to Europe: a pair of aging chekist thugs.

    Traditionally, at the Victory Day parade, Putin is flanked by two veterans who fought in the Second World War, writes the quoted source. This year, however, the two who stood next to the Kremlin leader did not fight in the war. Moreover, they were part of the dreaded Soviet secret police, Agentstvo reveals.

    According to the investigative website, to Putin’s right was former NKVD agent Yuri Dvoikin, 98, who was sent to the Lviv region of western Ukraine in 1944 for “operations to liquidate partisans” of Ukrainians.

    Dvoikin “voluntarily enlisted in the army in 1942, but never reached the front,” writes the Agentstvo website. Because he was a good shooter, he was an instructor for snipers, and in 1944 he was sent to Lviv, to eliminate the Ukrainian resistance.

    To Putin’s left sat former KGB officer Ghenadi Zaitsev, born in 1934, who participated in the suppression of the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia, the Prague Spring, Agentstvo reveals.

    https://romania.postsen.com/world/233979/Putin-flanked-by-two-NKVD-and-KGB-torturers-at-the-May-9-parade-One-of-them-participated-in-the-annihilation-of-the-Ukrainian-resistance-in-1944.html

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  2. Belladonna 2
    11 May 2023 at 8:14 pm

    This is interesting – a comprehensive 'no faith' response from a top Auckland school to the new NCEA level 1 curriculum.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/st-cuthberts-college-concerned-about-new-ncea-level-1-curriculum-writes-its-own/5UO37PIPTNCJJBYTSHDFALLD4U/

    A top Auckland private school has so little confidence in the new NCEA Level 1 curriculum it is ditching the qualification in favour of its own Year 11 diploma next year.

    Principal Justine Mahon said several of the school’s senior academic staff had been on Government advisory panels for NZQA’s proposed changes to NCEA and had become increasingly concerned by what would be taught in 2024.

    “We don’t think it provides sufficient, in-depth learning for our students,” she told the Herald.

    “I’m also concerned about educational standards in New Zealand. Some subjects have been merged so that means that potentially, hundreds of students throughout the country will have a less rigorous conceptual framework.”

    Chemistry and biology had been merged into one subject as had accounting, business and economics. Several subjects, mostly in the arts, had also been removed.

    Mahon also believed “fundamentals” like the writing requirement and mathematics had been “dumbed down”.

    Time will tell, but this is not a good straw in the wind for the NCEA curriculum revamp.

    St Cuths typically has the top-achieving students sitting the IB – so they will be very concerned to ensure they are well prepared.

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    • ianmac 2.1
      11 May 2023 at 8:42 pm

      Some Principals use such a position to show just how "much higher their standards are" than those of those dumb State Schools. Therefore we should send our kids to St Cuths.

      I can't see that conscientious rewriters would dumb down the curriculum.

      And incidentally General Science way back then was Physics, Chemistry and Biology. It worked so well to enable experiences to help decisions to specialize.

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    • Peter 2.2
      11 May 2023 at 9:31 pm

      The Herald has made its arbitrary judgement again and the Auckland school is a 'top' school.

      There must be a list on their office walls they use to indicate whether the word 'top' should be used in a story to describe a school, particularly in a headline.

      Having been baptised with the label it seems having taken it away is unlikely. I have seen reports of appalling behaviour in so-called 'top' schools. The shitty behaviour, the sexual abuse or bullying, the terrible attitudes certainly indicated to me they weren't 'top' schools.

      My letter to the editor after a spate of very undesirable events in such establishments, asking what qualifications attracted the label, was not published.

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      • Belladonna 2.2.1
        11 May 2023 at 9:38 pm

        St Cuths is always in the top 10 or so schools across NZ for exam results. So in the context of NCEA – characterising it as a 'top' school seems reasonable.
        No doubt, if the article was about kapa haka – then they would be an also ran.

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        • ianmac 2.2.1.1
          11 May 2023 at 9:44 pm

          You do know Belladonna that some Top schools get high pass rates by training the students to pass exams. A few years ago Auckland Grammar John Graham was proudly explaining how from Year9 the boys sat many practice exams so by the time they reached year 11 they were killed at passing exams, which is not the same as being highly educated.

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          • Belladonna 2.2.1.1.1
            11 May 2023 at 9:52 pm

            You do know Ianmac, that many of the 'top' schools have an outstanding success rate with students being able to enter (and continue to graduation) in internationally ranked universities.

            Whereas students from (what used to be Decile 1, and is now some meaningless MoE number range), are lucky to have 1% of their students go on to any tertiary education at all.

            While I don't believe that this is (or should be) the goal for every student – to ignore the academic success that can be achieved is pure ostrich territory.

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            • SPC 2.2.1.1.1.1
              11 May 2023 at 10:26 pm

              Did you make the number 1% up, or is it related to an actual school you can identify?

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              • SPC …
                11 May 2023 at 11:22 pm

                I've since identified one decile one college that exceeds that low expectation, of course it could be an outlier (c10% onto university and c33% to other tertiary).

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              • Belladonna …
                12 May 2023 at 10:44 am

                It's an estimate, but based on actual data

                https://www.lawsociety.org.nz/news/legal-news/only-a-few-low-decile-students-get-into-law-schools-claims-investigation/

                The condensed version, entitled “Want to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer? Don't grow up poor” says only one in 100 entrants to the elite university courses come from the most deprived homes.

                It notes that one university took only a single decile one entrant – out of more than 2000 – into its engineering programme in five years but more than 500 decile 10 students.

                This article is from 2018 – but things are unlikely to have changed.

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                • SPC …
                  12 May 2023 at 10:48 am

                  There is some difference between access to the most contested places in university and university itself, let alone all tertiary education.

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                  • Belladonna …
                    12 May 2023 at 2:02 pm

                    Is your argument, therefore, that kids from decile one schools can only get into courses which have no enrolment caps?

                    You might also find this informative. This is not even UE level – just the basic literacy test.

                    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ncea-changes-just-2-per-cent-of-decile-1-students-pass-new-writing-pilot/KIDUCLS52MCPJ6F624HRHWPRBY/

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                    • SPC …
                      13 May 2023 at 1:06 am

                      No my argument is the fact that this

                      Whereas students from (what used to be Decile 1, and is now some meaningless MoE number range), are lucky to have 1% of their students go on to any tertiary education at all.

                      is not true. Consider yourself fact checked.

                  • Belladonna …
                    13 May 2023 at 10:36 am

                    See data above. My estimate was out – but not by as much as your cherry-picked and unidentified example.

                    Consider yourself fact-checked.

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                    • SPC …
                      13 May 2023 at 11:47 am

                      I made no claims – and your own evidence refutes your own claim.

                      The only decile 1 school I looked at to check was Mangere College. I made no claims based on it, as a single case could be an outlier, as I stated.

                  • Belladonna …
                    13 May 2023 at 1:06 pm

                    So, do you now accept that entry into tertiary education from Decile one is around 3.5% dropping to 2.5% for university level – contrasted with 16-20% for decile 9-10.

                    Note, that these percentages appear to broadly reflect the UE qualification ratio between decile 1 & 10. Most kids at Decile 1 don't even gain UE (only 9%)- so aren't even eligible for enrolment at uni.

                    Figures from here – using 2020 stats, since something seems to have gone wrong with the 2021 ones for Otago/Southland.

                    https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/school-leavers

                    Do you have any comment about this?

                    Or only interested in gotcha.

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              • Incognito …
                13 May 2023 at 11:27 am

                As you can imagine, there are loads of stats for the NZ educational sector.

                If you are interested in what happens to school leavers then this might be a good place to start:

                https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/what-happens-to-school-leavers

                If you want to know the breakdown of school leaver’s attainment, then start here:

                https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/school-leavers

                The Interactive Dashboard is very handy. For example, it shows that in 2021 16.09% of Decile 01 students had UE as their highest attainment and 26.43% had Level 3 or above.

                HTH

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                • Belladonna …
                  13 May 2023 at 1:14 pm

                  When I look at this, there seems to be something wrong with the figures for 2021 for Otago/Southland (100% at Level 1)

                  Checking 2020, I seem to get a total of around 9% with UE (adding the UE totals, and dividing by the number of regions).

                  How are you calculating this? Are we looking at the same data?

                  NB: if we are, it seems incredible that zero kids in Otago/Southland and Nelson/Marlborough/West Coast got UE in 2020.

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                  • Incognito …
                    13 May 2023 at 1:30 pm

                    I did not ‘calculate’ anything.

                    I used this link (https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/school-leavers), scrolled down to the Interactive Dashboard, clicked on the button labelled School Decile and obtained a coloured stacked bar graph of highest attainment by decile. The default year is set at 2021 but you can change the year easily using the Filters (Year) on the LH side of the dashboard.

                    I cannot make it any simpler than this.

                    PS in 2020, UE was the highest attainment of 18.07% of all Decile 01 students. The percentages that I have quoted in my comments are for the total national population (default setting).

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                    • Belladonna …
                      13 May 2023 at 1:57 pm

                      Whereas, when I search for School leavers highest educational attainment, and limit by decile 1 & year – I get very different figures.

                      This splits it across regions – hence the note of the strange data in Otago/Southland.

                      [Sorry, can't figure out how (or if) I can add in an screenshot of what I see]

                      I wonder what is going on with the data?

                    • Incognito []
                      13 May 2023 at 2:06 pm

                      I have no idea what data set or time series you’re using, so I can’t help you sort out the apparent inconsistency.

    • SPC 2.3
      11 May 2023 at 10:20 pm

      Back in the day there was less choice in the NCEA1/SC year.

      Science was one subject, as was maths and english and there was no economics. It was either commercial studies (business) and accountancy (some did both). People only did 5 subjects each year (NCEA 1, 2 and 3).

      The move to identify specific competencies, within wider subject areas, seems to have become confused with greater depth of teaching and any return to the former practice, with a dumbing down of standards. This might suggest, either a certain naivety or a capacity for misrepresentation.

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    • SPC 2.4
      12 May 2023 at 12:43 am

      The people asked to comment were the Minister (who referred to the Ministry of Education), Seymour (do they not know who Chris Baillie is), Stanford and the "New Zealand Initiative" known for their partisanship.

      Time will tell, but this is not a good straw in the wind for the NCEA curriculum revamp

      That the direction of the revamp is not one designed for those with an established focus on IB and foreign university placement is no surprise. That is one predicated on enabling a smoother process to an international career path. A nation, in a world with skills shortages, has to consider an education system with a wider purpose than that.

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  3. joe90 3
    11 May 2023 at 8:37 pm

    fuck

    Jess Piper
    @piper4missouri
    “i WOnDEr WhY tHe KidS ArEN’t VOtiNg FOr RepUBliCAnS”

    https://twitter.com/piper4missouri/status/1656278768481189888

    https://www.tiktok.com/@notyourmama91/video/7231307624317488430

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  4. SPC 4
    11 May 2023 at 11:39 pm

    If I were the Local Government Minister …

    I would be agreeable to replacing the Mayor with an appointee (and acting CEO) on two conditions

    1 The CEO resigns and the position is advertised.

    2 There is an investigation (someone is appointed to do this) into the historic and ongoing affairs of the council (wide and open brief, as to disfunction and "irregularities").

    We're from the government and we're here to help and how are the PGF projects going …

    But first a question, why should only the Mayor (and or CEO) be removed, and on what grounds?

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/05/majority-of-gore-district-councillors-want-mayor-ben-bell-to-step-down.html

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