"Up the poor with a can of Heineken !" - Is this the corporatized Labour governments attitude toward the working class here in Upper Hutt?

To quote from "Small Schools - Why they provide the best education for low-income children":

'To urban administrators, moving a school ten or fifteen miles down the road may seem a minor adjustment on the state map," said Purdy. "Poor parents with worn-out cars, welfare mothers with more kids at home, grandparents and proud neighbors can get to the community school for the talent show or the kindergarten graduation, but they cannot get ten or fifteen miles down winding two-lane roads or over mountains. Parental and community involvement in the schools drops precipitously."

A Lincoln County parent whose community school was closed put it this way, "Everything was centered around the school. After the school was taken out, you could tell a big difference. Then we were a community that got together. Now we’re just people who live along the same road. We don’t even see each other much." '

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