Parents and teachers are calling for Key to apologise over the stress and anxiety that his government has caused them over the last 2 weeks. Want to guess how Key handled it?
The Prime Minister is refusing to apologise to parents and teachers over the Government’s botched education reforms. John Key admits it made a mistake, but that’s as far he’ll go.
Two weeks after the Government lined up education for funding cuts, it reneged. But it was two weeks of stress and anxiety for teachers and parents. “I think that they caused the teachers and the head teachers a lot of stress that was unnecessary,” says parent Kirsty Stewart. For that, parents and teachers are calling for an apology. …
The Ministry of Education and its minister spearheaded the reforms, but all of Cabinet approved them.
“Cabinet needs to take responsibility,” says John Key.
Usually when someone makes a mistake, especially one which causes such a stir, it’s followed by “I’m sorry”.
So will John Key say it? “No,” says the Prime Minister. “But I think parents would see very closely that the Government has listened.” …
I could speculate about the various charitable (and uncharitable) interpretations of Key’s refusal here, but cutting to the chase, I think he is dead wrong to withhold an apology. Most of the media isn’t playing suck-up any more, so this becomes a very bad look indeed…
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