The truly horrible NZEI campaign

The geniuses at NZEI have launched a campaign called Make It Stop. Their campaign video has kids playing the recorder and people begging them to stop. It is meant to be some sort of super clever analogy aimed at the Government, but most people will just see it as the NZEI dissing kids learning music.

Learning the recorder is a hallowed part of school. I remember learning it at Island Bay Primary. And here the NZEI thinks it is something to be mocked.

Now I wasn’t the best recorder play at school, but as it happens one school girl who was very good at the recorder is a certain Erica Stanford. And she has just shot a video showing off her recorder skills, and urging music teachers not be to be out off teaching kids the recorder as it is such a great entry into learning music.

If there was a award for worst political campaign of the year, the NZEI would be an odds on favourite to take it out, even though it is only February.

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