4 Feb 2023

The Detail's Long Read: The School Away From School

From The Detail, 5:00 am on 4 February 2023

This is The Detail's Long Read - one in-depth story read by us every weekend.

A rural backyard on a sunny day. In the background is a blue mountain range leading down to a body of water. A woman is walking along the lawn feeding chickens and ducks from a bucket. A lamb runs towards her.

Photo: Lottie Hedley/New Zealand Geographic

This week, it's The School Away From School written by Bill Morris and published in New Zealand Geographic's January/February 2023 issue.

You can find the entire article, with photos from Lottie Hedley, on the New Zealand Geographic website.

One hundred years since its inception, Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu/the Correspondence School has broadened its scope to become a safety net: a place for kids who are bullied, anxious, or profoundly out of step with the mainstream system. Many of them struggle at Te Kura, too—but for others, there’s something magic about this school that strives to meet them where they are.

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