I agree with B. Johnson's letter (The Weekend Sun, October 11). Our current Govt is introducing compulsory NZ History to be taught in schools by 2022. Yet another ploy in which to retain/gain Maori votes.
Maori activists are hell-bent on painting Captain Cook's discovery, and the subsequent settling of Pakeha in NZ, as the worst thing that ever happened.
They need to read the history books and face up to the true accounts of what was happening in NZ up until around 1860.
Maori had been continually at war with each other for centuries. No law and order, no government, no health care, strongest tribes take all, complete anarchy.
Wholesale murder, enslavement and cannibalism was rampant throughout NZ, including the Chatham Islands, (where Moriori were 99 per cent wiped out).
Maori lived in continual fear, not peace.
So will the ‘real and truthful' version of early NZ History be compulsorily taught in schools from 2022 or will our youngsters be indoctrinated with a fabricated and fake version?
Who says you can't rewrite history. Some Maori seem to think they can.
Peter Kelly, Te Puna
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Fear of the truth?
Posted on 18-10-2019 09:41 | By KiwiDerek
You say: "Our current Govt is introducing compulsory NZ History to be taught in schools by 2022. Yet another ploy in which to retain/gain Maori votes." Perhaps it is, instead, a ploy... to teach New Zealanders about their history. I find it baffling that this plan doesn't receive universal applause. In the interests of having a self-aware educated population surely the attitude should be: "yes what a great idea, now let's teach it correctly".
Then will we have
Posted on 24-10-2019 15:02 | By crazyhorse
Different versions of our history in different schools? there are so many versions of our history it's hard to keep up, who will decide what version is taught o our children?
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