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Madonna King

Madonna King: Our teens have felt the deepest impacts from three years of COVID-19

The best thing about schooling is socialisation. Take that away, and what do you have? asks Madonna King.

Think of something silly you did as a 16-year-old. Perhaps it was getting drunk at a birthday party, or jumping from a branch into a fast-moving creek on the way home from school.

For me and my friends in our tiny country town, we’d steal the mailbox of a favourite – and good-natured teacher – and present it to them on Monday morning.

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