Larry Williams Drive

So you’ll have caught up on the news now that the government is making it easier for teenagers to get NCEA qualifications this year, for the third year in a row. They’ve lowered the standards, schools are again allowed to award extra credits called learning recognition credits and they get one for every 5 credits that the students achieves. The threshold for University Entrance has been lowered as well. So, instead of needing 14 credits in 3 different approved subjects, the kids can get by with 14 credits in 2 subjects, and then 12 credits in a third. Now I’m prepared to be argued against on this but I reckon this is the right thing to do and I shock myself even saying that. The COVID disruption to kids this year, and not just COVID but really just general disruption across the board to kids this year has been out of this world. I was talking to a principal today who told me that some schools have seen attendance as low as 30 percent. The kids are sick, the family members are sick, they are household contacts