14 Aug 2025

Māori educator on govt scrapping Māori words in readers

From Morning Report, 6:41 am on 14 August 2025

A Māori educator says he's angry the Education Minister is blaming possible confusion over pronunciation for excluding most Māori words from future books in a series for five-year-olds learning to read. Wellington kura kaupapa tumuaki and joint national chair of the national Kura Kaupapa Māori movement Rawiri Wright spoke to Corin Dann.