Latest from Letters to the Editor

NCEA standards: Are schools teaching to the test?

OPINION: NCEA's common assessments should reflect true literacy and maths skills.

Letters: National’s evidence-based promises unravel

OPINION: Some decisions, like cancelling ferries, defy evidence.

Letters: Wealth and the 'hard work' myth

OPINION: 'To a very large extent, wealth in New Zealand comes from government decisions.'

Letters: Banks' climate policy could be NZ's saving grace

OPINION: Saving grace or woke climate policy?

Letters: How to cut cost of school uniforms, why would PM attend Waitangi?

OPINION: 'I cannot deny that Donald Trump's strategy is masterful.'

Letters: Here's a case for a state asset sale; the human cost of raising speed limits

OPINION: 'Is this not a good example of very poor financial performance?'

Letters: The folly of relying on private healthcare; Trumpism in NZ politics

OPINION: Once lost, our wonderful public health system can never be recovered.

Letters: Why increase speed limits when road toll reducing?

OPINION: 'Do we want to see an increase in those grim white crosses.'

Letters: Look overseas for hot house solutions

OPINION: 'We're unintentionally creating heat traps in our pursuit of modern aesthetics.'

Letters: Sport has become big business; empower police by arming them

OPINION: 'Unfortunately we can’t choose our neighbours - it’s just the luck of the draw.'

Letters: Keep e-scooters off pedestrians' pavements

OPINION: 'The residents of Meola Rd are not the only ones who are irate.'

Letters: Obesity is caused by food choices, not childhood trauma

OPINION: 'If that’s considered quality telly then I am very out of touch.'

Letters: Politics trumps massive public interest in Treaty bill

OPINION: 'In the real world, political pragmatism and expediency will always win.'

Letters: Ratepayers on the hook for SailGP; Turia's lasting legacy

OPINION: Also in today's letters – e-scooter chaos and planning to avoid poverty.

Letters: Dodging e-scooters at 'Wild West' Wynyard ruins the point of a nice walk

OPINION: 'Just weaving through everyone like it’s some kind of obstacle course.'

Letters: Trump short of compassion over LA wildfires

OPINION: 'The President-elect himself is unwilling to offer even a quantum of solace.'