Children Should Be Allowed Their Tricycles
Monday 9th Apr 2001 Donna Awatere Huata Media Release -- Education
ACT Education Review Office spokesman Donna Awatere Huata today labelled ERO recommendations that a Lower Hutt Early
Childhood Centre have ‘tricycle-free’ days as political correctness gone mad.
“To suggest tricycles in the playground encourage competition, ownership and aggression is ludicrous.
“We should let children be children. What is wrong with a bit of competition and ownership?
“Introducing trike-less days would be nothing short of mean-spiritedness.
“My advice to the staff of the Best Beginnings Early Childhood Learning Centre is to ignore this politically-correct
advice and concentrate on what they do best – preparing their pupils for the challenges of primary school education,”
Mrs Huata said.
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