For about the fifth time, I do not want to exclude Te Reo from school books, I don’t even believe the minister wants to do that.

This is clearly not true because you are defending and excusing this action. The minister absolutely wants to do it which is why she did it.

That isn't what she has done. The book has moved from the early reader list into the general reading list.

Early readers are the learning resources that take a learner from rote memorizing lists of sight words to being able to start decoding and reading unknown words themselves.

We asked our school to borrow a bunch of early readers to cover our evening reading over last Christmas, which we were a bit nervous asking for. When they figured out were a bit embarrassed asking, the teacher said something to the effect that they don't use most of these that much anymore. The structured literacy approach ( that is fairly new ) means most of the kids only have to work over a couple of books to learn the techniques to decode and sound out words and apply them. She said they usually just use "Pip and Tim" unless the kid is bored of it.

The reading that kids who that aren't specifically struggling do now is more just regular resources from their other subjects than specific reading resources.

You keep accusing me of not wanting Te Reo in school books, this is absolutely false.

My initial post was that we had a bad experience with a specific book. When I boil that down, it was because the book had too many new words.

It's not that it is a bad book. It is the spot it was in the early reading program.

You could make it fit, they would have to:

1. Seed the sight / heart word lists with more Te Reo.
2. Find or have someone write a bunch of early readers that have Te Reo introduced as the new words one by one, just like they do for every other word.

I support both of these things, but I'm not the one making the calls on that.