Tolley – the reverse Rumpelstiltskin

Written By: - Date published: 10:10 am, October 25th, 2010 - 5 comments
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It struck me today that Anne Tolley is quickly becoming a “reverse Rumpelstiltskin”. Everything she touches in Education seems to end up in a shambles.

She took a well functioning Adult and Community (ACE) programme, stripped out millions of dollars and has left what is now increasingly a disjointed shambles.

She took the ACE money and invested it in her policy of National Standards, which is increasingly a disjointed shambles.

Took money from a good programme, and left it a shambles, to fund a programme which is becoming a shambles.

Negotiations with teachers is also starting to look like a shambles.

Rumpelstiltskin spun hay into gold. Anne Tolley is being very successful spinning gold into hay.

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  1. ghostwhowalksnz 1
    25 October 2010 at 11:11 am

    Actually Rumplestiltskin was the dwarf who spun the straw into gold for the Millers daughter who made fanciful claims.
    But otherwise the fairy tale fits with Key as the Miller trying to big note himself, Tolley is the clueless daughter

    In order to make himself appear more important, a miller lied and said that his daughter could spin straw into gold. The king heard of this and called for the girl, shut her in a tower room with straw and a spinning wheel, and demanded that she spin the straw into gold by morning, for three nights, or be executed. She had given up all hope, when a dwarfish creature appeared in the room and spun straw into gold for her in return for her necklace, then again the following night for her ring. On the third night, when she had nothing with which to reward him, the strange creature spun straw into gold for a promise that the girl’s first-born child would become his.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpelstiltskin

  2. marsman 2
    25 October 2010 at 12:34 pm

    Tolley is a twit who does Double Dipper Bill English’s bidding.

  3. Irascible 3
    25 October 2010 at 3:10 pm

    Tolley is a true reflection of the fundamental philosophical basis of the NACT party: That all that is State provided is unjustified expenditure as the State should only be there to subsidise private providers- private schools and hospitals for example.
    This belief structure allows Tolley to denigrate the teaching profession if they are state employees and to remove any provision that will benefit the society at large.
    No more, under Tolley, does the philosophic underpinning, stated by Peter Fraser, of NZ education exist…

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