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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hey, this is a big one. So this case is

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Speaker 2: being hailed as a victory for teachers' rights to yell

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Speaker 2: at students who are misbehaving because Paramitt Brownson was her name.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you what school it was,

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Speaker 2: but she was given the sack whip for yelling at

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Speaker 2: her students. There was a few other things in there

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Speaker 2: as well. She was accused of unprofessional conduct. She was

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Speaker 2: alleged to have yelled, oh make your life a living hell,

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Speaker 2: I quite like it to one student. She screamed at

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Speaker 2: students on yard duty and conducted intimidating bag searchers. So

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Speaker 2: she was given the sack. She's taken it to court, whap,

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Speaker 2: and she's won sixty thousand dollars in compensation.

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Speaker 1: So she should.

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Speaker 3: So when you're a teacher, and I've got a big

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Speaker 3: background of teachers in my family, auntie, mother, sister, I reckon,

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Speaker 3: there's a little bit of besides the education piece, we've

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Speaker 3: got a parental role to play as well. And if

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Speaker 3: you need to raise your voice because this isn't working,

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Speaker 3: hey teacher, Yeah, if that's not working, or hands in

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Speaker 3: the air.

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Speaker 2: No, I've got your life. I've got to admit. The

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Speaker 2: clap does work getting everyone's attention.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing.

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Speaker 4: There was a situation, I know it does. There was

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Speaker 4: a situation in my school fits where a teacher got

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Speaker 4: in trouble because he slammed a kid against a locker

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Speaker 4: and the principal said, you can't do that to a student.

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Speaker 1: He said he wasn't a student. I'd expelled him seconds before.

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I got rid of him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I remember mister Bell, who was our pe teacher, picking

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Speaker 2: up David Eldridge in the cricket nets and had him

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Speaker 2: up against the cricket nets. That's just it's a confronting moment.

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Speaker 2: I think there's there's a moment in every teacher's life

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Speaker 2: when they snapped. Don't you know what I told you

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Speaker 2: about our art teacher, Miss Cavell's I think her name was, And.

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Speaker 1: She left the room and someone went and got like

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Speaker 1: some spray adhesive and just drenched her chair in it.

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Speaker 1: She came back into the room and sat down and

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Speaker 1: the spray adhesive went straight onto her fresh country road pants.

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Speaker 1: Well that's not it's not fair, and it's not funny.

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Speaker 2: You were you saying it because you think it's free.

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Speaker 1: Well there was a laugh at the time.

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Speaker 2: Did you get detention for it?

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Speaker 1: No, Look, it wasn't me. I would never do something

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Speaker 1: like that. But she ran out of the room screaming,

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Speaker 1: you've ruined my country road pants and I don't know

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Speaker 1: how she got on after that. It's in Whipper with

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