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Teachers are split on whether band T-shirts are appropriate in the classroom.

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Teachers in T-shirts: Are band tees appropriate classroom attire?

An Aussie teacher asked her peers whether she should wear a hip-hop artist’s T-shirt to work, sparking a furious debate about work clothing for educators. So what do you think?

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 4, 2025: Minister for Education, Jason Clare during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

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Failing their future: Doctors’ damning report card on Aussie kids

A major study of the wellbeing of Australian children has found it stagnating or in decline across 21 of 22 key measures – and a group of senior doctors is pointing the finger.

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Maths at the beach? Expert’s bold plan to take STEM lessons into nature

Identifying mathematical patterns in nature is the secret to make primary schoolers fall in love with maths, one expert says as the government plans major curriculum reforms.

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Wallaroo Mines Primary School principal Tamarin Condon is on leave amid an investigation into her conduct. Picture: Facebook

Minister confirms allegation about principal stood down for probe

An SA primary school principal is under investigation after claims including that she brought her husband with her on a school camp, the minister says.

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Boys from ‘wrong side of the tracks’ 10 times more likely to be suspended

Poorer boys are up to 10 times more likely to be suspended or expelled from schools, a decade-long Australian study has found – reflecting a devastating gender and class divide.

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A new OECD report has found Australia has the second most stressed teachers in the world.

The three workplace issues pushing Aussie teachers to the brink

Many Australian educators are at breaking point despite spending less than half of their working week actually teaching, a global report shows. Three key factors are to blame.

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Are trainee teachers smarter than a 9th graders? The LANTITE test shows nearly 12 per cent of aspiring teachers fail the year 9-standard test at the first time of asking.

Trainee teacher test shows record first-time fails – would you pass it?

Aspiring teachers are struggling to show they are as smart as ninth graders, with 3000 failing to pass the benchmark LANTITE test last year. Take the quiz and see if you’d pass.

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Childcare staffing crisis reveals children are unsupervised despite strict ratios

Childcare educators are risking their jobs by speaking out about dangerous staffing practices leaving up to 14 children with only one adult in the room.

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St Benedict's School students Penny, Amba, Lucy and Max. Picture: Supplied.

Back to basics: Inside SA school ditching digital learning for tradition

A new Adelaide school has banned digital devices and returned to teaching methods from ancient Greece, with students claiming they’re more engaged than ever.

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Teachers have shared the bizarre classrooms moments that left them struggling not to burst out laughing - or in need of a good cry.

A staff toilets ‘crying room’ and other wild ways teachers cope

It’s not easy being a teacher, and sometimes you just need to vent. But there’s also plenty of opportunities to embrace black humour at the bizarre stuff your students say.

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Forget ‘boys and girls’ – teachers told to watch their gendered language

Teachers are being strongly discouraged from calling students ‘boys and girls’ or ‘guys’ to make classes more inclusive – and you won’t believe some of the suggested alternatives.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - ADVERTISER Photos SEPTEMBER 25, 2025: Emily Harrison with her children Archie 8yrs (Shorts) and Olive Harrison 3.5yrs (Denim Jeans) and mates, Siblings Isabella Carbone 11yrs (Jumpsuit) and 10 year old twins James Carbone (Glasses) and Stella Carbone (Black Jeans) and Ava Sckrabei 6yrs (Green Shorts) playing in their Unley backyard. Emily is the SA lead in Wait MateÃ a not for profit organisation encouraging schools and parents to work together in reducing child mobile phone use Picture: Emma Brasier

Parents’ phone-free kids pact sweeps across Australia

Parents desperate to protect their kids from tech addiction have found strength in numbers, with a revolutionary no-phones movement spreading across Australian schools.

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From sewage plants to a bottling factory, nudist beaches to a bacon slaughterhouse, our readers have recalled some of the most excruciating school excursions of their childhood.

A trip to the sewage plant, and other sh*tty school excursions

These days, pampered teens go on school trips to Europe, Japan or the ski fields. It’s a world away from the grim excursions endured by kids of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.

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Aussie kids losing tech race as Chinese schools go all-in on AI

As millions of Chinese primary-schoolers learn to use AI in the classroom, a tech expert warns Australian students are losing the race to master the game-changing technology.

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