I am outraged at the latest Code for the teaching profession. This document indicates an obvious predilection and disturbing obsession with everything Maori within the Education Council.

Expecting teachers to comply with such a racially-biased Code is a recipe for disaster.
The Treaty of Waitangi, which is now just a historical relic, made us one people. There was no reference in its terms to any partnership; there were no principles in the Treaty and it was certainly never our founding constitutional document.

Therefore, references to a fabricated and misinterpreted Treaty of Waitangi, biculturalism, partnerships, separatism and with an overwhelming emphasis of special treatment for all part-Maori throughout the Code is a racist aberration.

Currently the major initiatives are directed to part-Maori interests while simply ignoring the apathetic 85 per cent of New Zealanders.

NZ is now a multicultural nation comprising many peoples and races.

The Code is an inauspicious document and in its present form needs to be purged of the indoctrination, racial bias and prejudices.

It is a formula for serious racial disharmony which will inevitably promote conflict between teachers, children and parents.

The authors of this Code should hang their heads in shame for producing such a potentially divisive and race-based document.

J Wright, Otumoetai.