Duncan’s right, I wouldn’t want teachers doing it either
For once Duncan Garner has got something right.
I’ve been lucky to get a reasonably good insight into what goes on in our schools in recent years.
In many ways I’ve had a front row seat in the classroom, and I’m not sure it’s always been a privilege.
And that’s not because we have bad teachers and poor schools, not at all.
What I’m talking about is the huge and ever-increasing demands that are being piled upon our teachers.
My wife is a teacher-aide at a decile 4 school. I hear stories that could regularly lead news bulletins.
Schools have become more than a learning environment, they’re now a one-stop welfare agency without the corresponding resources required.
And I blame, among other things, bad or absent parents, stress, drugs, poverty, alcohol and general societal breakdown.

As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
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