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Hobsonville Point Primary School
Primary school · State · Auckland
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Good environment, but absent education
18 De Havilland Road, 0618, Auckland
Daniel Birch
09 557 0810
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However, the main component is missing - education.
The school is running an experimental programme that’s based on learning in context. In reality, after two years in this school, I cannot tell the difference between what my kid was studying two years ago and now.
Despite being assessed positively by teachers, it’s obvious he’s behind in math, which we have to compensate with extra curricular classes. He lacks both understanding of basic fundamentals and ability to apply math skills in tasks that are too different from what they were taught. The latter is ironic because that was supposed to be one of the advantages of this method of education.
They can play Disney cartoons to kids for the whole day, or take them for fishing or other kinds of exciting activities. That’s awesome, but when do they actually study? Even my son told me he’s not learning a lot…
Our friends moved to a different suburb for a more traditional school. Many other families we know are unhappy with the education, same as us.
In our intro meeting with the principal, he talked us through the benefits of the method and mentioned that “not everybody understands it”. I can see why - there’s simply nothing to understand.
It’s very convenient tho - it’s not the method that’s flawed, it’s parents not understanding. Where’s any evidence that it works? The only evidence I see is NZ’s tragic underperformance in tests compared to other countries. For that I certainly blame “experiments” like this.