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Reflection on a lifetime of teaching

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Janet Bodle is an educator extraordinaire. The 82-year-old  recently retired and talks to Loren Sirl about her extensive and varied career spanning 58 years.

Gisborne born and raised, Janet always knew she wanted to become a teacher. At the age of five and on her first day of school she came home in tears. Her mother told her later, she had cried because she hadn’t learnt how to read on h...


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