Fake Tolley letters not political. Yeah Right!
According to this NZ Herald report the ‘spoof’ letters from Anne Tolley on extending school hours given to children at Otatara Primary School were a creative writing exercise, according to school trustees, and not a political stunt.
Well Adam is a cynical old sod and he is sure he saw some pigs fly past his window as he read that item.
“It was a curriculum exercise to encourage creative writing with the children and there was certainly no malice intended,” Mr Reid told Radio New Zealand.
Copies of the letters were not intended to be given to students and parents were meant to have been told about the illusion before the exercise, he said.
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“One was handed out and that’s the one that found its way to the minister,” he said.
Well excuse Adam while he coughs derisively. Why make multiple copies if that was the case? If it was to be a creative writing exercise, why was the letter not marked as a ‘fictional scenario’ ? How can students take part in a creative writing exercise if the source for the exercise was not meant to be given to them?
Clutching at straws is what School Trustee Mr Reid is doing in Adam’s view.
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It must be the worst forgery in history then – did you see it?
Poor effort by the teacher involved (didn’t think it through) but ridiculous reaction from Tolley, who says she was ‘stunned’.
I have regarded her as ‘stunned’ from the moment she assumed the role of Minister.
Forging the signature of the education minister?
I can see that such an exercise might be valuable, but whoever thought it up must have known they were playing with fire, at the very least.
At worst, this is taking the campaign of unrelenting abuse targeting this particular minister into the classroom. Come to think of it, that’s not actually that suprising.