7In the table are different parties policies if they become the government in the 2017 Elections. Read them, then decide which line you think is the best. For each of the comments, write down your thoughts (could be for or against it), then at the bottom, write down which letter ROW you choose and why you choose that one.
Here’s what the parties will do about SCHOOLS!
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Comments
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A
| Increase teacher salaries and introduce performance pay | Open more charter schools | Increase funding for private schools | |
B
| Hold an education hui to develop a 30 year education plan | Replace National Standards with individualised assessment | Place at-risk young people with the army for job training | |
C
| Provide all students with personalised career advice and classes on practical life skills and civics | Provide schools with $150 per student if they do not ask for parental donations | Pay for mobile digital devices for students | |
D
| Replace school decile funding system with a risk-based system | Provide all primary school students the option to study a second language | Increase funding for digital education initiatives | |
E
| Ensure all young people leave school with a driver licence, bank account, IRD number and a CV | Provide free primary and secondary education to all children | Provide free after school care and holiday programmes for all children | |
F
| Fund schools enough for education to be free | Guarantee children the right to be educated at their local school | Make it safer for children to walk and cycle to school | |
G
| Reduce assessment in schools | Stop publishing school results | Improve coordination between the health and education systems for people with special needs | |
My vote would be for: I strongly disagree that Party A is for Education. Every child, should have to rights to be able to walk to school with a parent or a caregiver. It is also safe for every young child. I also believe that every child should have to rights to attend into an after school programme if it’s their choice. For parent’s who are struggling to get their children into school, It should be free. No paying fee’s once a month/year. It should all be free. Every child shouldn’t enter into danger. Parent’s should be waiting for their children after school so they can take their kids safely home..
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Here’s what the parties will do about HOUSING
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Comments:
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A
| Stop the sale of state houses | Build at least 1,000 state houses each year until demand is met | Develop a national strategy for ending homelessness | |
B
| Build 5,200 new social homes in Auckland | Continue to fund community-based housing initiatives to prevent homelessness | Continue to sell state houses to non government housing providers | |
C
| Stop the sale of state houses | Support local councils to provide more pensioner housing | Require councils to have a social housing plan | |
D
| Build 450 more state houses | Stop the sale of state houses | Build 5,000 homes to sell to non-government housing providers | |
E
| Aim to end homelessness by 2020 | Establish a Minister for Māori and Pasifika Housing | Build 90,000 houses by 2022 for social housing and private sale | |
F
| Gift state houses to non-government housing providers | Review accommodation support payments | - | |
G
| No policies found | |||
My vote would be for:
I strongly agree with party vote E. I strongly believe that the people who are homeless should be staying in a house by 2020. I strongly agree with it because with people who can’t access into anything should always have a roof under their head. People should stop being selfish and think about others. We are all equal and we are made from 1 creator. I simply believe that everyone has the rights to have a roof under their heads. Even if they don’t have the money to buy anything, everyone should be able to do everything and anything. The Government should build houses for those who are living in the streets.
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Here’s what the parties will do about HEALTH
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Comments
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A
| Remove GST from milk and fresh fruit and vegetables | Increase funding for clean drinking water projects in isolated Māori communities | Halve power bills for households with rheumatic fever | |
B
| Ban junk food advertising | Require schools to have healthy eating policies | Raise the drinking age to 20 | |
C
| Review the accessibility of safe spaces in communities for exercise and play | Review the accessibility of affordable healthy foods | - | |
D
| Make it safer for children to walk and cycle to school | Introduce a warrant of fitness scheme for rental homes | Tax sugary drinks | |
E
| Introduce enforceable quality standards for rental housing | Implement a plan to reduce childhood obesity | Aim to end HIV in New Zealand by 2025 | |
F
| Work towards NZ being smokefree by 2025 | Continue to implement a plan to reduce childhood obesity | Allow DHBs to fluoridate drinking water | |
G
| Reduce tobacco tax | |||
My vote would be for:
I Strongly agree with Party E. The reason why I pick Party E is because I think it would be a good idea to make the rent houses more comfortable and warm for the renters, and it would be good if the houses has good quality, because there would be a chance of people paying it to the full price because of the Quality. I also agree to end HIV in by 2025 because no one would want a disease to catch themselves.
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