
Nicole Precel
Education reporter at @theage, on maternity leave. Email: [email protected] @AJEnglish, @SBS2, @Co_Ground co-founder. She/Her. Our Watch fellow 2021.
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5 days ago |
brisbanetimes.com.au | Nicole Precel
By Nicole PrecelUpdated April 19, 2025 — 2.44pmfirst published April 16, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Parents’ WhatsApp chat groups have become so “diabolically bad” for schools that experts are urging educators to fight back through the courts, and the teachers’ union is calling for state government intervention.
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1 week ago |
theage.com.au | Nicole Precel
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Drinking in the peace on the banks of East Gippsland’s Mitchell River, you’d have no idea what once was “Australia’s worst school” is mere minutes away.
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1 week ago |
theage.com.au | Nicole Precel
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Parents’ WhatsApp chat groups have become so “diabolically bad” for schools that experts are urging educators to fight back through the courts and the teachers’ union is calling for state government intervention.
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1 week ago |
watoday.com.au | Nicole Precel
Schools urged to fight back against bickering, online harassment and toxic gossip in parents’ WhatsApp groupsSaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeParents’ WhatsApp chat groups have become so “diabolically bad” for schools that experts are urging educators to fight back through the courts and the teachers’ union is calling for state government intervention.
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watoday.com.au | Nicole Precel
She did a year-long cooking class one day a week, starting from 9.30am and finishing at 2.30pm. “The mothers, they don’t need to go home and come back, they can just pick up their kids,” she said. Carlton said the impact of the initiative had been overwhelmingly positive, especially with families re-engaging back into the school community. According to the school’s parent opinion survey, Debney Meadows had a 94 per cent positive response rate for community engagement.
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