Bradford pleased at planned walkout

Sue Bradford

The Green Party is pleased a number of students will be skipping school tomorrow to support the campaign to scrap youth pay rates.

A group called Radical Youth is organising a walkout and rally in Auckland.

Greens industrial relations spokeswoman Sue Bradford says it is great to see the support for her bill.

She says it is an urgent issue which affects students most, so she is not worried about them missing a bit of school.

She is pleased there are some radical students who are willing to take action, and she says students can sometimes learn more by doing, than by sitting in a classroom.

Sue Bradford says there is real momentum for change and she is sure it will happen this time.

The New Zealand Secondary Schools Principals Association finds itself stuck between a rock and a hard place over the planned walkout.

President Graham Young says it is a tricky situation.

He says he does not believe school children should be exploited for cheap labour, but on the flip side they should not be exploited by a protest movement either.

- NEWSTALK ZB