More on Blockhouse Bay School

A reader writes in:

I have several kids that have gone to Blockhouse Bay Intermediate and one child has just started there this term.  The number of Polynesian students at Blockhouse Bay Intermediate is tiny.  The largest ethnic groups among the school population (by a long way) after NZ Europeans are Indians, Chinese, and other Asians.  The 2015 ERO report confirms this and three years later the number of Asian students has grown even more.  In fact, over half my daughter’s class are of Indian extraction. 

Interestingly, last year my son was told by his teacher that he and a bunch of the other teachers went on holiday to Rarotonga together.  The emphasis given to the students was very much about a holiday and no mention was made of it being a work trip.

You may also recall that it was the same school that came under fire in December for spending $10,000 on a farewell party and leaving gift for the outgoing principal and also for spending $3700 collected for Fiji flood victims.  See link here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11963278

Sounds like there is a real spending culture at Blockhouse Bay School.