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A teacher at Lake Betoota Public School has started the report writing process this week by telling everybody she comes in contact with that she’s starting to write reports.

Ms Connie Heston hasn’t put pen to paper yet, she says, but opening the dialogue about doing it often helps get the creative juices flowing.

“Trying to find the nicest, most articulate way to tell parents that their kid is dumb as a box of rocks takes time. You need to tell people that you’re writing school reports because it’ll let them understand your erratic behaviour over the next few weeks,”

“Because writing reports is a very stressful time of year for us teachers. In the words of our principal, it’s fucking fucked, mate. Totally fucked,”

“But that’s coming in a few days, for now, I’m just warning people that I’m going to be writing my reports soon. If you can’t handle me when I’m writing my reports, you don’t deserve me at the pub when we break up for summer.”

The Advocate emailed the local rep from the Teachers Federation for comment but were told we’d get an answer in 8 to 10 working days.

More to come.