tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18947592.post5504735177169897217..comments2023-11-06T00:01:30.085+13:00Comments on New Zeal: Toni Waho-Kohanga Reo Radical?Trevor Loudonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040453691836232676noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18947592.post-14070023058552881112008-01-31T03:23:00.000+13:002008-01-31T03:23:00.000+13:00Although we are pakeha, we asked and were allowed ...Although we are pakeha, we asked and were allowed to have 2 of our children go thru the Kohanga Reo system in Whakatane, and our 3rd child attended school in a rumaki/te kura kaupapa (maori immersion) program. Once our intentions were clear, to educate our children in a second language and expose them to maori culture, we were almost universally welcomed and included in other community events such as funerals, weddings and other group meetings. Not once did we get a sense of radicalism or separatism, only a community striving to recapture what was lost. We did hear stories from older members of being beaten for speaking maori in schools, but there was rarely a hint of residual bitterness, only a focus on the future.<BR/>Just a perspective of a grateful outsider looking in.Geekdochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06908946810423916336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18947592.post-90821066782426750042008-01-06T10:58:00.000+13:002008-01-06T10:58:00.000+13:00When national is elected government later this yea...When national is elected government later this year will funds for these grandiose schemes dry up?<BR/><BR/>I have a friend who lectured at the Palmerston North campus Te Wananga who was gob smacked by the blatant corruption exercised by those in control.<BR/><BR/>I suspect the same will happen at Mana Tamariki. The Waho family will build themselves an empire on taxpayer funding and get away with it.<BR/><BR/>Its a shame young Maori are so easily influenced by the political rhetoric of the Chinese mindbenders.<BR/>They will have to learn the hard way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com