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This documentary looks at the new right ideology that transformed public education in the 80s and 90s and the schism it caused with teachers. Interviews with parents, teachers and unionists are cut together with archive footage of treasury officials and politicians advocating that schools be run as businesses. There are vexed board of trustees' meetings, an infamous deal between Avondale College and Pepsi, and teachers take their opposition from the classroom to the streets. The film is the third in Alister Barry's series critical of neo-liberal reform in NZ.
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Morrissey Breen
Posted at 11.56PM - 17.04.2012
Click on 13:11 --- Brian Picot is talking in platitudes, and then a cut to Lange, who looks vaguely harried and bewildered; he has a notion that he is being manipulated but he lacks the intellectual firepower and the intestinal fortitude to counter such aggressive ideologues as Picot and Russell Ballard.