Te Reo Maori

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Introduce universal teaching of Te Reo Māori as a core curriculum subject through to year 10 and universally available elective Te Reo Māori learning through to year 13.
Increase funding for Māori-medium education, including kura kaupapa, kōhanga reo, and mainstream te reo immersion and bilingual learners, including funding for professional support of Māori-medium teachers.
Provide support, including scholarships, to encourage teachers to train for and teach in full immersion and bilingual educational institutions.
Support and expand programmes that focus on cultural activities, such as kapa haka.
Promote better responsiveness of tertiary educational institutions to the needs of Māori students and support Te Wananga o Aotearoa to continue to develop new models of Māori tertiary education.
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by Firstclass | 3rd Oct 20, 1:29pm 1601684954

The Green's policy is to:
"Introduce universal teaching of Te Reo Māori as a core curriculum subject through to year 10 and universally available elective Te Reo Māori learning through to year 13."

Forced policies are never wise to do, it tends to achieve the exact opposite.
In the communist satellite countries in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s Russian was a compulsory school subject.
All this achieved is the students overwhelmingly hated Russian language and this policy completely backfired.
What you may want to do is, make "Te Reo Māori" optional and let people who are interested, select it by free will.
You popularise the language, make it cool and not enforce it on people.
Some 50 000 https://bit.ly/36tZqVi people in NZ speak the language well, 1% of the NZ population.