Now TeKura want to ditch Hunter from enrollment
24 November 2020I got an email last week from Te Kura The Correspondence school Aotearoa Nz. Telling me that Hunter no longer fits the criteria for enrollment with them and I should enroll him in a face to face school.
HOW does a child affected by drugs and alcohol in the womb all of a sudden become a candidate for public school after 6 years and never ever having attended a public school and done all his schooling through Tekura who, havent supported us sufficiently by not supplying a TA for him. Last year they told me there wasnt any funding allocated to Hunter for a TA which is why I started this page so I could pay a TA myself. Im crushed. Im fighting to keep his enrollment because they send regular workbooks for him but I need a TA for him because its a daily and minute by minute battle raising a child with FASD and Drug damage related issues and its a roller coaster. I cant be his Teacher as well because trying to be that ruins our days. He works well for others and I have to choose my battles. Id rather not ruin our relationship by being the bad guy over his education. We are trapped in this space where if I dont ensure he does sufficient school work I'll get charged with neglecting his education but being a Teacher ISNT my ROLE or chosen profession. Te Kura pays Teachers to oversee the students schooling but they dont do any teaching at all. We the Parents/Caregivers are meant to do all that for nothing. They used to pay a supervisors allowance of $380 every 6 months but they have changed the name of that now because it wasn't adequate recompense for our time and now call it something like Student resources fund so effectively we are meant to do a full time teaching job for nothing whilst they are getting paid for doing very little. We haven't heard from Hunters TeKura Teacher for a couple months is any form of Teaching support role. We like her, dont get me wrong, but this isnt fair. Hunter requires 24/7 supervision and public schools dont provide that.