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"If you go to Brooks your future is likely to come true."
- Grade 8 student |
There are many visitors to Brooks High School, Launceston, Tasmania. They come to see the school that is also a sheep and cattle trader, car recycler, broker for casual employment, Registered Training Organisation, where the nation's leaders accept invitations to speak, whose feeder communities are among the lowest socio-economic areas in Tasmania but in most years 100% of school leavers do not take the dole, and where staff say they do 'whatever it takes' to keep it that way.
The Brooks visitor could be struck by several first impressions. The Careers Room is in the busy heart of the school while the Administration section is off at the side. No buzzer sounds every 40 minutes to herald the mass migration of students and teachers that is a feature of high schools elsewhere. The atmosphere is noticeably happy and (since this is real life) hectic, messy and spirited too.
But when the visitor looks harder, there is more to find about the aspirations, philosophy, teaching and programs that underpin Brooks' unusual achievements. |
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