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Never Give Students Sharp Objects

Confessions of a Secondary School Teacher: Part III

Elizabeth Wilks
3 min readAug 4, 2020

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Accidents happen. In classes like Woods or Metals, where students have access to sharp instruments in which to impale themselves, accidents can be unavoidable. Sport injuries in PE often led students to parade around with a bag of leaking ice water. But, never did I think I would send a student to hospital in an English…

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Elizabeth Wilks

When she’s not writing at the coffee shop, cuddling with her cat, or watching bad reality television, you can find her traveling to new and familiar places.