Teaching Maori
The Cashmere High School board of governors will ask the Department of Education to look into the provision of itinerant teachers of the Maori language and culture for work in secondary schools.
The headmaster (Mr T. H. McCoombs) said to the board that the Maori language and way of life should be taught in schools as an optional subject outside of the curriculum.
In reply to Mrs L. R. Blunt, he said that the school does not at present have any plans for introducing the subject—in which there is a shortage of competent teachers. Mrs Blunt said that the education system had neglected generations of students who go through schools with no idea of the marae.
“I am more concerned that Maori pupils in the school have little or no knowledge of their own origins,” Mr McCombs said. “They do not speak the Maori language, and they do not know what tribe they came from.”
The board’s secretary (Mr P. J. Halligan) said that the Department of Education has approved a grant of $5865 to cover the cost of extending the school’s woodwork machine shop. Mr McCombs said that the building of a teaching block, and language laboratory rooms, is progressing well. The teaching block should be completed by the end of January and available for use next year.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33064, 3 November 1972, Page 4
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