- It felt so good passing, because every
time you walk
past a teacher that
taught you, they’d always be like:
“So
good to see that you guys passed and that you
decided to come back to school.” It just feels great hearing them say that.
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- I feel proud as a Māori when success comes
through
and you hear: “Oh, it’s the
Māori students. They’re
the ones
passing.” Māori students are excelling at
our school.
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- It means there’s hope for Māori to become something more than everyone’s
stereotypes. It brings hope just to see that we can
actually make a
difference.
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- Not a lot of Māori kids have actually made
it to the
senior levels in our
school. I think people are scared
of
failure, because they’d feel ashamed. But failure,
you can learn from it. It’s nothing bad. Just push yourself. Who cares if you only get
Achieved? At
least it’s something.
So be proud of yourself, and
have
the mana. Actually, be the Māori kid that gets
to the senior level and passes. It makes you feel really good about yourself.
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- When you’re a Māori and you achieve, it’s
amazing
because quite a lot of Māori
get underestimated. For
Māori to
show people our capabilities, what we can
do, it’s quite an amazing feeling. When other Māori see our achievements, they want to be just like us, so they push for it as well.
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