by Rebecca Thomas Lay Your Dreams: A kōrero for our tamariki — past, present, and rising. They are the dream-carriers. Like so many others on this page — and in the circles of education that still hold our tamariki and their whakapapa with deep reverence — yesterday I was all things at once: Angry. Frustrated. Ashamed. Utterly heartbroken. The release of NZC 2025 ( I refuse to address it as Te Mātaiaho) was one blow — but what broke me was the sound of our Minister’s voice o