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Why I won't be supporting the Salvation Army this Christmas
Here's a tip, charities: maybe wait a few weeks after the high profile suicide of a bullied gay child before you start talking about how school anti-bullying programmes are oh-so-discriminatory.
!["Australia is doing worse than Australia used to": Peter Goss, Grattan Institute.](/web/20170107020016im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/s/7/8/3/image.related.landscape.300x200.gt4w8p.png/1481062520692.jpg)
Australian school students two years behind world's best
Australian high school students are up to two school years behind their peers in the world's best performing countries, a major global test of student achievement has revealed.
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Perth mum forced to show 'barber's note' after son kicked out of school
A Perth mother is outraged her teenage son was told to leave school on Monday morning because his hair was "too short".
![Brandy Vela's family said the teen was the victim of cyberbullying.](/web/20170107020016im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/4/1/o/g/image.related.landscape.300x200.gt3xou.png/1480901993117.jpg)
Bullied teen commits suicide in front of family
Brandy Vela, 18, fatally shot herself after enduring years of cyberbullying.
![Tyrone Unsworth, 13, who took his own life after being bullied.](/web/20170107020016im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/x/v/4/6/image.related.landscape.300x200.gt3oq8.png/1481175051505.jpg)
Hundreds rally for bullied teen Tyrone Unsworth
Hundreds of people have rallied in Brisbane's CBD in memory of teenager Tyrone Upworth demanding the implementation of the Safe Schools program across Queensland schools.
![Who can say what takes people to that point of no return?](/web/20170107020016im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/2/c/m/6/image.related.landscape.300x200.gt2but.png/1480633215723.jpg)
The tragedy of realising too late that you had been a bully
I've been bullied myself and I know people who've suffered it - because I was one of the people who dished it out to them.
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The Sydney schoolboys taking on the 'most hated man in the world'
He outraged the world by hiking the price of an essential drug by more than 5000 per cent.
![Rod Brooks and his daughter Madi, a year 7 student who was offered four school scholarships.](/web/20170107020016im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/u/7/p/2/image.related.landscape.300x200.gsu59s.png/1479772849762.jpg)
The X factor in Australia's toughest competition: landing a private school scholarship
What does it take to land a private school scholarship in the country's most prestigious schools?
![Schoolies week kicks off on the Gold Coast this weekend.](/web/20170107020016im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/b/s/e/u/image.related.landscape.300x200.gsqzhi.png/1479337530333.jpg)
A letter of our year 12 school leavers, ahead of schoolies week
Dr Seuss, in Oh, The Places You'll Go! might have had you in mind.
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Weekly boarding an answer to full-time work and parenting?
Working parents demanding increased flexibility from employers are being offered an alternative: weekly boarding.
![What is the Mannequin Challenge?](/web/20170107020016im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/k/k/p/z/image.related.landscape.300x200.gskkcx.png/1478578367866.jpg)
What is the Mannequin Challenge? Bizarre 'freezing' video craze sweeps the web
Planking was cool in 2010, we had the Ice Bucket Challenge two years ago and now Mannequin Challenge videos are sweeping the web.
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