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I'm all for initiatives that help alienated groups engage in education and from this move on to tertiary institutions. It's very much a socioeconomic as well as an institutional racism thing. Things like serious wealth distribution, spending on social services, reframing how we teach the curriculum to be more relevant to Maori, guaranteed seats at the table where it's decided what's important & what's not. Removing financial barriers to study is part of this.

Like paid maternity leave, free fees is taken up more by middle class. This doesn't necessitate it being something we shouldn't do as a society.