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Prevention of Delinquent Behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

V.S. Hoopgood
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I was somewhat surprised and disappointed to learn last month that a Year 9 Aboriginal student, whom I have taught since he arrived at high school last year, had broken into the Home Economics section of his local primary school and embarked on a spree of damage and destruction. What could have possessed this lad who can be friendly, helpful and positively trouble free for much of the time at school, to follow such a course of seemingly unprovoked and senseless action. My school, Murgon State High School, frequently plays host to delinquent behaviour by both Aboriginal and European descent students. In the past 16 months I have been physically threatened, sworn at and deliberately disobeyed. Fortunately for my self-respect’s sake, I have not been alone in receiving this tirade of abuse and disrespect. We have 120 Aborigines in a school of 480, and delinquent behaviour is not peculiar to either group.

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Across Australia.......From Teacher to Teacher
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 32 - 36
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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