Is it fair to punish the whole class?
Short & Curly
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ποΈ 24 December 2020
β±οΈ 22 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever been in a situation where someone did something wrong, but didn't own up? And then the teacher punished the whole class until the real culprit confessed! Is it fair for a whole group to be punished for something one person did? Molly, Carl and Matt go back to school to find out.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | It was a day like any other. |
| 0:10.0 | The sun shone as we sat in Ms. Costa's year six classroom. |
| 0:14.0 | We joked and laughed with each other. |
| 0:17.0 | A ha ha ha! |
| 0:18.0 | Happy and innocent. Life was good. |
| 0:21.0 | We were the best class in school, the class everyone wished they were in. |
| 0:25.6 | But then everything changed. It was just before lunchtime when it happened. |
| 0:32.4 | Now we're going to move on to the carbon cycle and we'll be |
| 0:35.2 | doing a fun experiment involving dissolved bubbles. So, wait a second. My cookie jar. |
| 0:44.0 | Who stole the cookies from my cookie jar? |
| 0:47.0 | I bought those special cookies for my, my and part |
| 0:51.0 | and if no one stole the cookies from my cookie jar I pretend you all did because you've got too far |
| 1:00.0 | Which is why in our happy little class the joy has ended the laughter gone |
| 1:07.2 | Outside it's lunchtime everyone is having fun we can hear them laughing and playing games without us. |
| 1:14.0 | We're all just sitting here, half board and half anxious. |
| 1:18.0 | Nothing to do but watch the seconds tick by. |
| 1:21.0 | But Ms. Costa, I'm starving! And Miss, I need to play crickets. I'm batting today. |
| 1:29.2 | I've got dance practice in the hall. Sparklele motions going to Nationals. |
| 1:34.0 | We have an ethics club meeting starting in five minutes. |
| 1:37.5 | I'm the club treasurer, I have to be there. |
| 1:40.0 | Oh, hey, Matsia. |
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