Should Te Reo Māori be compulsory in schools?
No, it should be optional in every school but not compulsory
We would not be here today without the Māori culture. It is apart of New Zealand and what makes NZ,…
Whilst I understand and see your point about other life skills we should learn, that was not the question that was asked. I too think that those skills, although I don’t know how they would do it, should be taught as the benefits would reap through society and generations to come. As for the question that was asked, which was, Should Te Reo Māori be compulsory in schools, some of what you want to be taught such as respect, is something that is deeply embedded within the Māori language for example. As to address my comment about the math and English skills, I guess I was vague. What I meant to allude at was that we are taught compulsory math for majority of school, often learning skills such as Pythagoras, trigonometry, how to write film essays etc. Whilst I’m sure those skills will be useful to a small minority of people with whatever professions they chose to pursue, they are mostly useless to society which is held true due to most of the older generation not knowing these skills and many kids who have left school, not remembering a single thing about these. Obviously basic math and English skills will always be used, but those skills are ones we learnt at a very young age. The Māori language is a dying language because we have let it become one. It used to be banned in schools where they were just trying to abolish the language as well. If you know anything about linguistics you would know that language is deeply important. It has culture, history and connects people. New Zealand is Māori land, English speakers colonised it, not the other way around.
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