Yes, absolutely they should and would. These are the kind of conversations our students need to learn to have in a respective, informed way. Our curriculum purposefully allows for teachers to teach topics they want, as long as they enable students to meet the achievement objectives and - in senior years - enable students to achieve at the relevant NZQA level. Part of the skill set that would be expected now is that students are able to differentiate between functional scientific processes, regardless of cultural significance, and those that are not scientific. However, there can still be discussion around mātauranga Māori that was previously considered scientific and why/not it doesn’t stand up to the rigours of scientific method versus those ideas that still do. Nobody said that it had to be taught as blind acceptance.