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Nostalgic memories of my SIDE experience

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

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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.

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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.

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12 recently published stories

  • Mattea – Regional Students – 2000s
  • A close relationship
  • Betty – Regional Student – 1940s
  • Dorothy – Regional student – 1926
  • School libraries and literacy
  • Helene – Regional students – 1940s
  • Julie – Regional Student – 1960s
  • Robert – Regional Student – 1941
  • Margaret – Regional Student – 1940s
  • Kylie – Travelling Student – 1988
  • Student contact is so important
  • Online teaching at SIDE

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