Stories

Nostalgic memories of my SIDE experience

Tony Dean remembers the close relationship between distance education and audio-visual education 1970s – 1990s

My brothers Forrest and Harry and I were all “on correspondence” in the 1940s, after the North Dinninup school closed [1942?], and before there was school bus access to Glenorchy School. That bus started in August 1948.

At the age of six, I was ready for school. I grew up with my sister who was four years younger, and Mum and Dad, on a very scenic, but isolated dairy farm, near to Boyanup. It was 5 miles to the primary school with horse and sulky the only means of transport.