Problems in social systems in various countries are many.
It is surprising that another country is encouraging when one country tries to create a society without smokes.
Every person in the world is different from the faces. it is also different from thoughts and needs.
One problem arises when one problem is solved, until what is right is understood.
It's morning recess at school and students wander out of the classrooms,
chatting, laughing, and reaching for their cigarettes to light up a smoke.
Children
as young as 15 are allowed to smoke during recess and lunch at the
government-funded school in Western Sydney, which has designated smoking areas.
Given most Warrakirri College students have done time in juvenile detention,
been kicked out of home or removed from parents on drugs or in jail, teachers
have decided stamping out nicotine is not their priority.
The school, which has
Blacktown and Fairfield campuses, caters to students aged 15 to 22 who have fallen
foul of the mainstream system, often rejected by public schools and lacking the
necessary qualifications for a TAFE course.
Fifteen-year-old Taylor Graham
dropped out of a Blacktown state school after showing up for “one week tops” in
Year 9, an attendance rate below 2 per cent.
Taylor, who pinches cigarettes from relatives, said the smoking ban at
her old school was one of the reasons she never bothered to show up. She felt
lost in a sea of 1700 students at a school that “couldn’t give two shits about
you”.
No-nonsense principal Carolyn Blanden has thrown out the rule book in her
bid to lure the most jaded kids back into the classroom.
“At my school you can come with bright blue hair and metal in your
face,” Ms Blanden said. “And if you need to have a smoke, that’s OK too.”
The
veteran educator, who was once deputy principal at Tara Anglican School and
boarding house mistress at Knox Grammar School, is well aware smoking causes
cancer but said the alternative was the kids go “back to floating around the
streets or into detention”.
In two hours The Sunday Telegraph spent at the school, teachers had to
console a hysterical girl who had broken her bail conditions by missing a
scheduled mental health check, and arrange a lift back to school for three
students worried they were going to be bashed at a nearby McDonald’s.
Earlier a
16-year-old prospective student divulged she couldn’t read aloud because of the
crippling memory of her father punching her every time she got a word wrong.
Two-thirds of students suffer ADHD, bipolar or oppositional defiant
disorder, which is characterised by constant disobedience and hostility.
Students are commonly domestic violence victims, which is why teachers
ditched the “hands off kids” rule enforced in most schools in favour of giving
hugs to children craving affection.
Although some students have served time for violence, the worst
outburst in the past three years was when a kid put their fist through a wall
in frustration.
Teacher Mona Lofti said the low rate of hostility could be put
down to the school’s decision to cap numbers to 100 students and the
unprecedented freedoms afforded to kids.
If a student melts down they are welcome to leave the room and fix
themselves a Milo or take a walk.
Kids
study three full subjects a year, instead of six subjects for two years, so
they can miss three years before their grades expire.
More than half of Warrakirri’s students who graduated Year 10 in 2016,
several of whom were the first in their families to ever earn a Record of
School Achievement (RoSA) formerly known as the School Certificate, took the
plunge and enrolled in the HSC.
Daily telegraph
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