When I was 13 years old and I got to choose, in form 3, what language I chose, I was told that if I chose Te Reo Māori, I wouldn't be in a top stream, because it was not an academic language. I was sent home to choose from German, Latin, Japanese, and French. That's only in 1989—that's not that long ago. We have come an incredibly long way. I didn't do it, by the way. I did Māori, obviously, and I was in the third stream from the top. That was because of the support of my parents, largely, and a home background that didn't accept what was the status quo in the school curriculum at the time. 