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We played the first match of our season this afternoon and won 63-0 🙂 It might have been closer if the other side had read the rules first 🤣 I didn't score a try, but now I look like a swamp monster so I can't be blamed for lack of effort 👍...

Have you ever cheated in school?

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Also if you have cheated do you feel this set you up for failure in the future now that you are out of school or was all the info just useless for lif...

You want to join my motorcycle gang?

Well mum's home and my name just got yelled

I'm dead if I'm not on here ever again I love you all

So I let mum know I missed the bus

she took it well😅😅😅...😰😰😰😰😰😰 I'm in so much trouble

I've overslept 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫

Mum trusted me to get up and catch the bus to school but I have overslept!

Is there anything a parent can do about relational bullying?

Relational bullying or relational aggression is the intention to harm others through deliberate manipulation of their social standing and relationships. For example: spreading rumors about someone so others won't like them or asking someone to j...

School making no sense as usual

So today was my first day back to school since last summer. We had broken faucets and locks in the bathrooms but did they fix them? Of course not! They installed new toilets (the last ones weren't broken) that are pointing at an angle to the flo...

A girl has lost some weights and has become popular online.

Retired NZ high school teacher

I am a retired high school teacher from New Zealand. I retired at the end of 2019 so I thankfully missed out on teaching in a virtual world. I definitely feel for this generation of students now that are having to adapt to learning in this new Covid ...

This year I am a Big Sister. I live in a boarding house with twenty younger girls and I look out for them and provide pastoral support. We welcomed them and their parents back yesterday. Then we held a pyjama party to keep them distracted for long en...

What Would You Do If Your Child Was Caught Skipping School?

Did you like high school?

Does anyone know how to get access to all the documents on Course Hero for free?

School corporal punishment [I Received Corporal Punishment At School]

Corporal punishment was in frequent use at my all boys grammar school. Most of the teachers kept canes in their classrooms though some used them much more often than others. In class the cane was given on the hands. If you were sent to the headmaste...

I Received Corporal Punishment At School

When I was younger yeah I think like 6th grade

I Witnessed Corporal Punishment At School

It was abolished a few years after I left and I thought it would lead to worse standards of behavior. I feel I was right. At least the good kids could get on with lessons and bullies feared authority then.

I Witnessed Corporal Punishment At School

Corporal punishment was pretty much everyone's favourite spectator sport at my school

I Witnessed Corporal Punishment At School

I was among the first girls at the school that had been an all boy's establishment until then, the mid 1970s. There were women teachers also but they proved a pretty tough lot, some more than others. I suppose they had to be. They continued cani...

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