Go forth and multiply

Greater literacy and numeracy skills for teens?  Sorted.  We have a times table chart in the toilet.  I am sure our daughter will thank us for that, once she is old enough to meet these new NCEA standards.

Back to basics for reading and maths, I say.  Of course, not forgetting the digital, bicultural, wellbeing, etcetera, curriculum.  My daughter loves to spend weekends sliding down hills on cardboard and dodging our cows and sheep, but she still rolls her eyes when I ask her to help in the garden and “play Minecraft in real life”.  She knows that, even if she were to stay here in Taupō, a rural career nowadays is just as much about agricultural drones, algorithms, and livestock scanners as it is mucking out calf pens.