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Brendon Morrissey: Kaitaia Primary School Principal on the Government's fuel relief package for teachers · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Erica Stanford's rolling out help for rural schools. This is to
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  Speaker 1: help teachers get there, to actually get in front of
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  Speaker 1: the kids and teach them. We're acting directly on what
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  Speaker 1: schools have told us with targeted, timely and temporary support.
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  Speaker 1: There's also thirty seven million bucks to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the diesel boilers up to seventy schools available nationwide. Brendan Morrissey,
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  Speaker 1: kan Time Primary school principal joins us this morning. Brandon,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, Yeah, good morning, run pretty good news.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there are some really positive news in
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  Speaker 2: the mix of that package that the Minister's rolled out.
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  Speaker 1: Which ones do you like?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're definitely the packages that are around the staffing though,
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  Speaker 2: so securing the future pipeline for rural teachers, the bonding
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  Speaker 2: schemes fantastic idea and adding more places so that is
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  Speaker 2: going to encourage more teachers to teach at now for
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  Speaker 2: all areas. And also the new new Go Rural program.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's definitely a really cool and should have too,
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  Speaker 2: certainly hasn't hasn't been around, but that will also encourage
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  Speaker 2: a lot of trainee teachers to get out into rural
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  Speaker 2: placings too. That's going to be a massive help for
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  Speaker 2: small schools that are struggling with having enough staffing.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic. Have you got a diesel boiler?
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  Speaker 2: No, mate, we did, but it was decommissioned many, many
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  Speaker 2: years ago, probably about twenty years ago now, so now
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  Speaker 2: actually know our one wasn't deed it was coal. There's
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  Speaker 2: probably still a number of coal boilers out there too,
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  Speaker 2: although I suspect the number of them with decommissions at
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  Speaker 2: the same time as our one was about twenty odd
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  Speaker 2: years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Brendan, the stats are showing that kids are still going
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  Speaker 1: to class, parents are getting them there, even though the
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  Speaker 1: price of petrol has gone up.
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  Speaker 2: What's your school like, Yeah, we haven't really experienced a
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  Speaker 2: dip in our attendance levels, but we've been funding our
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  Speaker 2: own school bus runs for many years. Ryan. The trial
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  Speaker 2: poverty statistics, as we know, have been pretty damning for
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  Speaker 2: number of years, and we decided as a school that
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  Speaker 2: we really wanted to help out phar No Else as
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  Speaker 2: much as we could, so we've been funding our own
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  Speaker 2: bus runs and paying for our own school funding. We've
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  Speaker 2: do a lot of fundraising to help achieve this, of course,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, so that to light out for anything.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliant Brandon and we lost the last little bit there,
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  Speaker 1: but the gist of it. I liked taking some initiative
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  Speaker 1: and look they've got the results. Kids are still coming
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  Speaker 1: to school even though the price of gas is up.
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