September 18, 2026 — 7:30pm

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When Lee Casuscelli got her first job out of teachers college in the 1980s, she was given what might be termed a challenging first assignment at The Grange Public School in south-west Sydney.

“She just got given the troubled class, I guess they called it, and no teacher really was able to do anything with these kids,” says her daughter Lauren Casuscelli. “They couldn’t really sit still at the start, they were jumping out of the windows and it was a bit chaotic.”

But Lauren says her mother gave her students 100…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU