Erica Stanford Advisor: Let's "end decolonisation's success"
Yesterday, news came that the Ministry of Education stopped publishing ‘About the Marae’, ostensibly because there were “too many Māori words” embedded within the book.
The Ministry’s statement suggested the volume of Te Reo Māori words might be too confusing for kids (6 as opposed to 3, the statement notes).
In my view, this severely underestimates chil…