It’s been a while since we looked at education here at The Sojournal. As mentioned in the past, I am involved in the education system and have a real interest in improving educational outcomes. I’ve commented previously on the train wreck that is the New Zealand education system. Years of intervention seem to have done nothing to stop the slide. Now we have new entrant teachers voicing concern that an increasing number of children are unprepared for school when they arrive. They struggle to ‘concentrate or manage basic tasks like getting ready for lessons’. One teacher lamented that when she began her career she would have all her new entrants reading by the end of the year whereas now she’s trying to get them ‘into the mode of how to behave in a school.’