Number One Shoes says it is deeply concerned about Wylie’s alleged offending. As a student teacher in 2020, Wylie had a placement at Freyberg High School in term 2. Principal Peter Brooks said the Education Ministry’s trauma team and police were at the school on Tuesday. It was possible students at the school had been contacted by Wylie, or one of his aliases, on social media asking for pictures of shoes. Brooks said the students felt violated that Wylie had been in their class, potentially looking at their shoes and taking pictures. The school was also wondering how Wylie made it on to the teachers’ college course at Massey University.
Number One Shoes says it is deeply concerned about Wylie’s alleged offending. As a student teacher in 2020, Wylie had a placement at Freyberg High School in term 2. Principal Peter Brooks said the Education Ministry’s trauma team and police were at the school on Tuesday. It was possible students at the school had been contacted by Wylie, or one of his aliases, on social media asking for pictures of shoes. Brooks said the students felt violated that Wylie had been in their class, potentially looking at their shoes and taking pictures. The school was also wondering how Wylie made it on to the teachers’ college course at Massey University.
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The review of a special unit that identified and raided high-risk early learning services said fraud was not a focus for the group, but it would be in future.
The review, obtained by RNZ under the Official Information Act, endorsed the work of the Provider Assessment Group, which the ministry is reinstating after running it as a pilot project that finished in October last year.
The group investigated mostly home-based education services and cancelled up to 17 licences across nine services for breaches of early childhood rules, most of them related to health and safety.
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The majority of South Auckland schools have been getting free Government-funded lunches for one term now, and while the programme is getting positive reviews from local principals and the catering businesses involved, some parents still have reservations. Flaxmere Primary School students enjoy their lunch. Source: Supplied / Ministry of Education
By Justin Latif, Local Democracy Reporter
Over the last term, 32,336 students from 69 South Auckland schools participated in the Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches programme, and an additional 24 schools are joining this term.
While the Ministry of Education would not comment on the programme s expected expansion, The Spinoff understands schools have been told it will run for another two years at least.