{"id":75021,"date":"2025-11-04T14:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/04\/new-zealand-maori-culture-school-classrooms-government-scraps-rules"},"modified":"2025-11-04T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:08:52","slug":"backlash-after-new-zealand-government-scraps-rules-on-incorporating-maori-culture-in-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75021","title":{"rendered":"Backlash after New Zealand government scraps rules on incorporating M\u0101ori culture in classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister says obligations for school boards to \u2018give effect\u2019 to the treaty are unfair while critics argue the move will sideline Indigenous education<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-treaty-of-waitangi-explained-in-30-seconds\">New Zealand\u2019s Treaty of Waitangi \u2013 explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A plan by New Zealand\u2019s government to scrap a legal requirement on schools to incorporate local M\u0101ori culture in classrooms has been condemned by teachers, principals and school boards.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2020, school boards have been obligated to \u201cgive effect\u201d to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-treaty-of-waitangi-explained-in-30-seconds\">Treaty of Waitangi<\/a>, New Zealand\u2019s founding document signed in 1840 between M\u0101ori tribes and the British Crown and instrumental in upholding M\u0101ori rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/04\/new-zealand-maori-culture-school-classrooms-government-scraps-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister says obligations for school boards to \u2018give effect\u2019 to the treaty are unfair while critics argue the move will sideline Indigenous educationNew Zealand\u2019s Treaty of Waitangi \u2013 explained in 30 secondsA plan by New Zealand\u2019s government to scrap a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75022,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75021\/revisions\/75022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}