Remember reading groups at primary school? You sat in a group of same talented readers and read aloud to the group with the teacher listening.
Really good readers hogged their go, reading beyond their allocated paragraph or page, especially if the teacher had zoned out because they’d heard that particular story at least 10 times over the past two years.
And then there were the avoiders. The ones who would do anything to get out of reading aloud, usually because they weren’t very good at it and well, reading is for sissies. They’d have to go to the toilet right before it was their go, or they’d deliberately lose their place so the teacher would get stroppy and deprive them of their go.
Well Jason Wood, MP for La Trobe was obviously an avoider. Take a look at this clip of him reading aloud from his prepared speech. Bet he wishes he’d listened to his teachers now.
But I reckon he got further than his teachers thought he would. They probably thought he’d be digging ditches, not a member of Federal parliament.
But is there any reasonable explanation for that tie? Don’t think so. Image
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