CHRIS BAILLIE (ACT): Thank you, Madam Speaker. There's something wrong in education in New Zealand, and parents are starting to worry. Our academic results in literacy, numeracy, science are heading downhill fast when compared with all other developed countries. We have a Government in denial. Changes in NCEA level 1 accounting, business studies, and economics, all becoming a generic "commerce", show this Government's priorities. Truancy rates are shameful: 67 percent of kids attend school regularly, and a report has been requested by the Education and Workforce Committee to try and find out why. We must get back to basics. All students who attend school regularly and can read and write will have a really good chance of succeeding in right. That's a fact.