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Speaker 1: Here at the entertainment center the RAA Street Smart High program.

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Speaker 1: A teacher who has been involved, I think with a

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Speaker 1: number of schools, but has been coming here every year

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Speaker 1: since the street Smart program began in two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 1: Wyatt deb Good morning, Welcome. I'll just turn you on

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Speaker 1: and off, I think, but we've got you now there

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Speaker 1: you are.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. Yeah, it's good morning to you. So what

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Speaker 2: have you said now?

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Speaker 1: You're telling me just as the new headlines were on

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Speaker 1: there this year helped start this going back before the

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Speaker 1: RAA was involved, tell me about the history.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So before a street Smart existed, dip TI through

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Speaker 3: community road safety groups would run a similar event to

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Speaker 3: this in other area. So I was actually involved in

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Speaker 3: event that we held for two years in Gorea and

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Speaker 3: pretty well using the same script at Malila Raceway and

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Speaker 3: doctor Bill Groeks was part of that. We had a

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Speaker 3: helicopter flying land and we put students into a coffin

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Speaker 3: and drove them away in the hear So it was

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Speaker 3: quite a for experience, but certainly not as big an

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Speaker 3: event as this, And certainly all the students that come

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Speaker 3: along now and experience streets Mart, they get a huge

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Speaker 3: amount out of it. I've had students come back and

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Speaker 3: tell me it's the best excursion that they've been to,

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Speaker 3: and it's quite a powerful excursion.

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Speaker 1: And that's it. Isn't that the power in this message?

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Speaker 1: And you hope it resonates with them. Have you caught

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Speaker 1: up with some of the students maybe from those early days,

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Speaker 1: whether it was early here or the previous one, and

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Speaker 1: heard about their experiences since?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they do.

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Speaker 3: Like I mean, actually, one of the teachers I bought

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Speaker 3: with me today, she came as a student many years ago,

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Speaker 3: you know, so, and she's she's now a teacher. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: certainly students will still go, oh, miss, I remember that excursion,

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Speaker 3: you know what, you know, what a great day. And

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Speaker 3: they'd learned this or they'd learned that.

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Speaker 2: And they don't call you miss still do they? When

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Speaker 2: they've left school?

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Speaker 3: They usually do actually something. Some of the cheeky ones

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Speaker 3: might call me dead, but most of them still will

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Speaker 3: go miss.

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Speaker 1: Why I said, it's all right, you can call me,

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Speaker 1: so okay, it stays with them, that's the important thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it does.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know, I've heard from so many people

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Speaker 1: just today about that brain snap. You know that that

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Speaker 1: causes you to pick up the phone when you shouldn't,

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Speaker 1: or you know, show off at the moment you shouldn't,

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Speaker 1: or whatever it might be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and unfortunately it is that little, you know, twenty

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Speaker 3: seconds of stupid I'd like to call it, where they've

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Speaker 3: made a poor choice, they've just put their foot down,

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Speaker 3: they've picked up that phone, or they've been fatigued. Fatigue

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Speaker 3: is a huge one for teenagers. They think they're superheroes

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Speaker 3: at this age, you know, So they'll they'll get up

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Speaker 3: really early, they'll go to school, they'll head off to

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Speaker 3: a party afterwards, you know, and think nothing of driving

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Speaker 3: home at two or three o'clock in the morning because

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Speaker 3: their netball game or whatever.

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Speaker 2: We're starting work at six or starting.

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Speaker 3: Work at six without the kind of you know, I've

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Speaker 3: got students now that will they'll do a full day

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Speaker 2: And work four hours.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, so at some point they need to sleep,

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Speaker 3: you know. And they're not superhuman, but that they think

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: And the added complication, I suppose from kids who have

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Speaker 1: always done that is the mobile phone.

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Speaker 2: It's the screen that we never.

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Speaker 3: Had no exactly. I mean it's great now the government

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Speaker 3: on board as students don't have their phones during the day,

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Speaker 3: which is fantastic. That's really made I've seen a huge

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Speaker 3: difference in student behavior as a result, so that at

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Speaker 3: least this current generation is starting to learn they don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just so important, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: And I guess that'll be drum time to them in

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Speaker 1: there about distraction and just putting the phone away because

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Speaker 1: it is such an accessory. It is such a you know,

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Speaker 1: a life saving device for so many people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is wrong, but you know what I mean, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean like, yeah, like I said, our generation, we

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Speaker 3: these days are much better built, yep, you know, but

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Speaker 3: it's still very much that has got to pay attention

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Speaker 3: and the old adage when you're driving, that's all you

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely so.

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Speaker 1: Now I've heard from people again here this morning telling

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Speaker 1: me you can get a real lump in the throat

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Speaker 1: in there as you know, people tell their story.

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Speaker 3: Definitely, Yeah, and the area actually have recorded me a

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Speaker 3: couple of years ago and they've used that for advertising

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Speaker 3: as well. And even with me sort of saying my story,

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Speaker 3: I had a bit of a lump in my throat.

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Speaker 3: I've seen this performance or you know, the crash scene,

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Speaker 3: lots of times, and it still brings a bit of

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Speaker 3: a tear to my eye at different points, different speakers,

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Speaker 3: And even though I've heard them taught before and I

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Speaker 3: that's really powerful.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the thing, isn't it. You just again,

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Speaker 1: you want that to really hit home to these kids.

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Speaker 1: And I suppose when it's done with such an impact

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Speaker 1: in terms of cutting a car open, seeing a dead person. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it so fake dead person here, but that's what you're

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Speaker 1: seeing in a real life scenario, Surely that's got to

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Speaker 3: I mean in the classroom, you can, you can tell

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Speaker 3: them a story, you can show them examples, but being

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Speaker 3: a deeper impact on them.

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Speaker 1: Well, hopefully it leaves that impression that we want them

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Speaker 1: to leave with here today, How good is it that

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Speaker 1: it's now three days and more kids can come through.

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Speaker 2: You'd love to see it over the week, wouldn't you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. It's fantastic that again, more schools can come,

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Speaker 3: and schools have come from quite long differences to get here,

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Speaker 3: you know, so when you look at some of the

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Speaker 3: names of the schools in terms of where they've come,

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Speaker 3: some of the rural schools and now have the advantage

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Speaker 3: I know for a number of years there. If you

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Speaker 3: hadn't hooked in the year before, then you've missed out

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Speaker 3: really to get a spot.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: So the fact that there I don't know what the

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Speaker 3: total figure of students coming.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twelve thousand this year.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's incredible. I remember when I was only five thousands.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so well more than double that. That is amazing.

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Speaker 2: You're on the outskirts as well, at Riverbanks.

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Speaker 3: So we're actually at angle Vale, just off the expressways.

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Speaker 3: It was a good journey to.

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Speaker 1: Come here, yeah, absolutely, And that is what an hour

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Speaker 1: or so there's kids coming from further away.

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Speaker 2: As you say, yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Have to say, well, super lucky with the expressway. It

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Speaker 3: was actually the fastest journey that we've made.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, So there you go. That's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: And well you don't want that speed message getting through. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: good on your dead great meeting you this morning. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for taking time out from inside there. I hope

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Speaker 1: the kids are behaving in there.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I think they're all doing the right thing.

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Speaker 1: Dr Deb why my guest, she's a teacher at Riverbanks College.

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Speaker 1: He's been bringing kids students to the event every year

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Speaker 1: since it began in two thousand and nine. And that's

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Speaker 1: here and then a few years before that out at

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Speaker 1: Malallara as well, which is amazing and obviously a commitment

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Speaker 1: to road safety.

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Speaker 2: Deb's what's that about.

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Speaker 3: Well, for twenty two years I was part of the

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Speaker 3: Gaoler Road Safety Group and so that again, so I Zony.

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Speaker 3: Recently in the past sort of year that the group

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Speaker 3: we've decided not to continue in the same format. We

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Speaker 3: will still continue like an virtual platform, and we've also

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Speaker 3: having our own fund through the local council, so the

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Speaker 3: Gaula Council will now have a road safety fund that

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Speaker 3: we we've funded.

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Speaker 1: Okay, hasn't that area changed amazingly in the last in

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Speaker 1: terms of driving through, Like going to the Barossa years ago,

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Speaker 1: you had to go through the main street of Gaula.

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Speaker 1: You had to virtually do that to get out on

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Speaker 1: angle Vale Road years ago, which was just a one

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Speaker 3: The Northern Expressway has made.

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Speaker 2: A huge ten the bypass.

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Speaker 3: But also now they're building so many houses out there

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's certainly changed.

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Speaker 3: Is a growth area, which is again why our school's

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Speaker 3: been put there, because there's so many new families moving

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, dev thank you for your time. You better get

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Speaker 1: back in and make sure the kids are supervised.

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Speaker 3: I know there's plenty of other teachers. I haven't left

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Speaker 3: and by themselves.

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Speaker 1: Wyatt from Riverbanks College become here for fifteen years.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Great meeting of this morning,