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Author: Kieron Sheehy, Sheila Curran
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The exclusion debate: Life after school

Updated Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Do schools do enough to prepare students to go out into the ‘real world’? Join the debate. 

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In the Excluded: Kicked Out of School series, Thomas's dad says: ‘These days you need an education. When I was growing up you just needed a shovel in your hand, them days are gone'.

Do schools do enough to prepare students to go out into the ‘real world’?

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