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Unqualified teachers burning out as they 'try to keep ahead of kids'
Five months after graduating from university as a language teacher, Anna Du Plessis was asked to teach geography.
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Three measures by which Australia's students are ahead of Finland's
PISA results conclude Australian students driven to do well during and after high school.
![Bryce Maine when he asked his grandmother Catherine to the prom.](/web/20170506043659im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/d/z/1/x/image.related.landscape.300x200.gvdyj6.png/1491356444271.jpg)
Teen asks his grandma to prom, school says she's too old
Somehow, the school's administrators got wind of Bryce's plans - and that's when they fell apart.
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Youth foundation launches Stay Kind Day in memory of Stuart Kelly
A new initiative was launched by the Thomas Kelly Youth Foundation to encourage "all our youth and the general community to care for one another".
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Cornrows won't go after school backs down on braid ban
The Melbourne twins who were ordered to unbraid their hair have been offered a "school uniform exemption".
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Hair's a key to 'identity' but black students told to play it straight
Whether it's cornrows or dreadlocks black students are running up against schools who, they say, 'are asking us to look like everyone else'.
![Matt Weikhardt with his children, Lewis 10, Evelyn 8, and Bronte, 1.](/web/20170506043659im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/7/4/s/m/image.related.landscape.300x200.gv83ep.png/1491191070585.jpg)
How to have that conversation with your tweenager
A Canberra teacher is hoping that his walking series is the first step in helping parents talk to their children.
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Girl interrupted: Today's teens struggling to get adequate sleep
Today, school is only part of a hectic teen's day - for many 14-year-old girls the day can reach far into the night.
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Girl suspended from school for selling 'sex toy'
I can hear you asking 'why is this even a story? That's fair enough - she should be suspended.'
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The high school where prom dates are luck of the draw
One high school has taken the angst out of finding a prom date.
![Teen guitarist Liu Jiazhuo is being hailed as a prodigy, after a video of him playing 'Thunderstruck' went viral in China.](/web/20170506043659im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/2/u/y/4/image.related.landscape.300x200.gv2uxb.png/1490147725081.jpg)
Be blown away by teen's awesome rendition of 'Thunderstruck'
This teen should just go right ahead and audition for AC/DC.
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