The measures of stress and anxiety are very subjective, and the stress felt by the elite special military operatives is not calibrated the same as that experienced by gentle teaching staff in gentle schools.
   Basically, stress measures can only be decided by the staff member suffering the stress. Outside observers' opinions are irrelevant about those experienced measures of stress and anxiety.
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Alice McGinty couldn’t wait to get to school each day. She was in Ms Reddy’s class and each day was an adventure in learning, living and laughing!
   Ms Eve R. Reddy (R for Rosalina) had set up play areas in her classroom where children could act out and practice language in context in a way that was natural and practical and dare it be said ‘fun!’
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There is something amiss in South Australia, significant problems with school attendance persist despite years of innovative flexible approaches being made available. Flinders University researchers Dr Andrew Bills and Nigel Howard's, who is also affiliated with UniSA, report – It’s Time to Act – comes as a response, and update, to the watershed 2000 SA report into school disengagement and detachment.
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Hard to believe but it’s December again, and we want to thank all our readers and writers for being involved in another year of Education Today.
   Hopefully you’ve noticed a new cohort of top local and international writers adding to our stalwarts; this is our new Commissioning Editor John Young’s work, hats off to him. Look forward to more top drawer writing in 2022, still free and still open source now for 21 years.