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Caroline Schelle

Melbourne

Education Reporter at The Age

Education reporter @theage. Formerly of courts, breaking & blogging. No longer checking Twitter. Tips and hate mail via email: [email protected]

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  • 6 days ago | theage.com.au | Caroline Schelle

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A simple classroom noise may go unnoticed by many kids, but could leave Alon struggling to stay focused on the rest of a test or lesson. “I wasn’t able to control myself, like, little noises in the middle of a test would make me shoot my eyes around. Like … they’d be going everywhere, and I’d be super distracted,” he explains.

  • 1 week ago | theage.com.au | Caroline Schelle

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A teacher who sent 35,000 messages to a student and started a romantic relationship with them after they graduated from high school has been barred from the profession.

  • 1 week ago | theage.com.au | Caroline Schelle

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A primary school in Melbourne’s inner west has been forced to bus more than 60 students to a nearby high school for classes because its crumbling school hall poses a safety risk to kids. St John’s Primary School in Footscray has been sending its year 5 and 6 students to Caroline Chisholm Catholic College in Braybrook since late May.

  • 2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Nicole Precel |Caroline Schelle

    The Epping teen said he’d gone to other tutors before Krishnan, but didn’t really like how focused on practice tests they were. In the lead-up to the big day, the student has been attending the online classes twice a week, for up to three hours. “They’re really productive,” he said.

  • 2 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Noel Towell |Caroline Schelle

    ‘Schools become a prison’: Parents must take responsibility for truancy, expert saysBy Noel Towell and Caroline Schelle June 11, 2025 — 4.45pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Victorian schools are making it too easy for parents to keep their children away from class, a major Melbourne education conference has been told.

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11 May 23

RT @rachelclun: Morning! So lots of journos (and interest groups) spent hours locked up this week reading through the budget paper, finding…

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30 Mar 23

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