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Connor Baird has been a teacher for nine years. In that time, he’s already burnt out, left the school system, and returned.
“As Maori, being part of a system that we can all acknowledge is systematically racist, and upholding that system, and watching that same system push through generations of Māori tamariki – it’s a pretty crappy feeling … got a bit too much for me, and I just kind of said: ‘eff this’.”