Mike Grimshaw is a sociologist at the University of Canterbury and says zoning for state schools is exclusionary and one of the greatest failings of New Zealand's egalitarian approach.
More than half of New Zealand's two-thousand-five-hundred schools have enrolment zones, a scheme that determines who can and cannot attend a school based on where they live.
And new data shows that houses close to prestigious state schools can attract an eighty-nine percent premium on their price.
Mike Grimshaw joins Emile Donovan.
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