Maori children, and Maori schools, or native schools as they were so named, were excluded from the 1877 Education Act, and would be left this way until the 1960s when there was a new acceptance towards Maori people (Holst, 1971). ... However, by 1969 "public" schools and Maori schools were fully combined, as Maori people saw it as unavoidable (Beeby, 1992, p.208). ... This meant less pressure was put on students as well as teachers to get through the required test information in the final year at primary school. ...

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