Student Snapshot 1

FEMALE STUDENT: … you can’t breathe in Lebanon. You have to be quiet and she [the teacher] has to see you looking at her. You can’t be looking at the table or anything in Lebanon. Yeah, maybe you’re not talking, but if you’re drawing or writing letters or whatever, I don’t know.

Student Snapshot 2

FEMALE STUDENT: I like it [Australian school system] because it’s you know, there’s understanding, teachers can’t hit you, they can’t… they tell you off but they can’t yell at you…