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Should your child still attend extra mural activities if they were too sick to go to school? · Anele and the Club on 947

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  Speaker 1: Wake up with a bang.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, wake up!
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  Speaker 1: Anele and the club on 947.
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  Speaker 3: Conversation-wise, you know there's, Michelle Obama says this every time
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  Speaker 3: you catch her and she's talking about parenting. She says,
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  Speaker 3: if you're trying to be friends with your child, you're
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  Speaker 3: already doing it wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, Kevin, who sent Auntie Anele a voice note, because
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  Speaker 3: Auntie Anele loves you, Auntie Anele is going to have
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  Speaker 3: to tell you that you're wrong, my baby.
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  Speaker 4: Is he wrong?
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  Speaker 1: Hmm, shame.
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  Speaker 4: Hey Auntie Anele, I was hoping that you could help
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  Speaker 4: me call my school.
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  Speaker 5: So Friday morning and I'm not feeling too well.
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  Speaker 4: So my mom says I don't have to go to
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  Speaker 4: school in the morning, but I end up feeling a
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  Speaker 4: lot better in the afternoon and I've got this big
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  Speaker 4: race coming up and I want to get my run in.
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  Speaker 4: So I go to athletics. And Malfra Khan's teacher sees me.
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  Speaker 4: And she is not too happy. And she wants to
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  Speaker 4: set up a meeting because I was bunking school.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. Do you think I'm in the wrong here?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, you are, Kev.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Kev.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Kev, you were bunking my baby. If you're not
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  Speaker 3: fit to go to school, you are not fit either.
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  Speaker 3: to go do sports. You can't attend one and not
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  Speaker 3: do the other. That entire day must be a write-off
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  Speaker 3: for you, even though you feel better. Sorry. I am
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  Speaker 3: not calling your school to get you off any hook.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah. So, Kev, I think the first conversation is
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  Speaker 1: about us calling the school. Whilst we like to discuss
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  Speaker 1: your problems, we do. That might be a step too
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  Speaker 1: far for us.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I think I would. You know me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a nosy poker.
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  Speaker 1: You'd find the school.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, you know I like to stick my nose
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  Speaker 3: in places where it doesn't belong. Okay. But in this case, Kevin, no.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're really wrong.
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  Speaker 7: I think the issue is.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, we've all taken a day and you feel
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  Speaker 8: better by like noon, right?
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  Speaker 7: But perception does carry. Because now... people who weren't at
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  Speaker 7: your house.
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  Speaker 8: Last night or in the morning who actually would have
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  Speaker 8: seen you struggling if you were struggling physically, it looks
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  Speaker 8: like you were banking. That's the thing that you have
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  Speaker 8: to manage ultimately, that it's not a good look.
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  Speaker 9: So firstly, you shouldn't be running if you're sick.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just start there.
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  Speaker 9: You shouldn't be doing any physical exercise if you're sick.
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  Speaker 7: But.
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  Speaker 9: In saying that, he said this is athletics practice, right? Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 9: he should have just missed it. I get it if
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  Speaker 9: a child is sick and they miss school because they're
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  Speaker 9: in the major production that night and then they're resting
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  Speaker 9: because they're a lead role or something and they have
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  Speaker 9: to be on stage. Then I can understand you missing
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  Speaker 9: school because you've got to let a team down. But
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  Speaker 9: athletics practice, no, Kevin, we ain't phoning your school.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin, look, this has happened to me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us.
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  Speaker 1: It's exactly what Cindy's mentioning there. No way. 1997.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: We had a school play.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I was not the lead.
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  Speaker 7: I think we knew that part.
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  Speaker 5: Were you a tree?
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  Speaker 1: I was second. Oh. But I had performances. And that
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  Speaker 1: whole day, I was really sick, fluish. And then in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon, my mates phoned me, still from the ticky
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  Speaker 1: box there, to say, are you coming for this thing tonight?
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  Speaker 1: Because the performance was in the evening. My mom in there,
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  Speaker 1: my sister was also in the play. So my mom left.
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  Speaker 1: They left with my sister to the school to go
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  Speaker 1: watch the play. And then I caught FOMO. At some stage.
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  Speaker 1: I hopped on my bicycle.
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  Speaker 8: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And I drove through to the school. And my mom
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  Speaker 1: and them were sitting in the audience. And there, Francois.
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  Speaker 1: Francie comes dancing out onto the stage. And my mom
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  Speaker 1: and them afterwards, what? How did this happen? Did you
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  Speaker 1: cycle here? You were sick all day. But I was
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  Speaker 1: really sick. And I didn't feel great. But then I
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  Speaker 1: pulled in. So I can see where Kevin is coming from.
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  Speaker 7: But therein lies the problem.
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  Speaker 8: You had FOMO about missing out on a play, but
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  Speaker 8: not FOMO about missing out on what you're actually at
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  Speaker 8: school to do, which is to learn.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, but if he hadn't been in a play, he
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  Speaker 9: would have let the whole production down. But missing athletics training,
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  Speaker 9: you can miss one session.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, they have understudies, hey?
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  Speaker 7: To be fair, Frankie was the second lead. He was
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  Speaker 7: number two on the call sheet.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and I'm telling you now, there's Ben Affleck, then
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  Speaker 3: there's Matt Damon, and then they have an understudy for them.
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  Speaker 3: There's somebody who could have done that. Also, this wasn't
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  Speaker 3: at the State Theatre.
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  Speaker 1: But this is what I'm saying. I get what Kev
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  Speaker 1: is saying because it happens for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine this is athletics, right? So, no, this is
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  Speaker 1: a conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Athletics practice.
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  Speaker 1: Running, you know. But if you were, let's say it
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  Speaker 1: was a match. Let's say you were playing a hockey
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  Speaker 1: match and you're the goalie. Okay, but then … Then
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  Speaker 1: you're letting the team down.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: So, then I'm thinking about like in the workplace, when
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  Speaker 9: Kevin's older, does he like get to miss … coming
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  Speaker 9: to work but then he gets to come to the
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  Speaker 9: staff drinks in the evening.
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  Speaker 3: Friends here today this wednesday at nine o'clock in the
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  Speaker 3: evening i'm gonna be at lotto if i'm gonna not
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  Speaker 3: come to work in the morning for an alien the
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  Speaker 3: club because i'm sick you guys can't switch the tell
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  Speaker 3: you on at nine o'clock and there i am go
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  Speaker 3: 9 16 and your bonus ball is 23.
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't judge you though. Five minutes versus three hours. Girl,
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  Speaker 8: I'll take the five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: But also you've had the whole day to recover.
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  Speaker 9: And you slept in late.
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  Speaker 3: No, guys. That's not the point. The day is gone.
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  Speaker 3: No one deserves you that day.
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  Speaker 1: So that's it.
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  Speaker 3: You stay at home. No one deserves you that day.
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  Speaker 3: You were sick.
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  Speaker 10: Sleep.
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  Speaker 1: Get your sick note.
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  Speaker 3: It can't be the one or the other because it
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  Speaker 3: just looks like you're banking the other one.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm sure that sometimes kids feel ill in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and then maybe midday they're feeling better, they go
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  Speaker 1: for the two math sessions.
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  Speaker 3: Generally how it happens. 011-8838-947, what's your take on this? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: should we call Kevin's school?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: But you guys are justifying it now.
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  Speaker 9: No, because it's athletics practice. If he had come back
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  Speaker 9: for something huge like.
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  Speaker 5: How to take trials. Then I would say, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: But it was practice. So no, Kevin.
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  Speaker 7: I'm completely with you. You miss everything. You miss everything.
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  Speaker 7: If you take the day, you take the day.
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  Speaker 1: But what's the difference if I go to the sick
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  Speaker 1: bay for two hours because I'm not feeling like it?
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  Speaker 3: Because you went to school and you caught a few lessons.
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  Speaker 3: You can't miss an entire academic day and then rock
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  Speaker 3: up for anything else that's fun for you.
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  Speaker 1: But that only gives me some kind of anti-estimation.
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  Speaker 3: It sends you back to class.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But then you stayed at home. You are gone to
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  Speaker 3: the world for the day. Stay there at home and
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  Speaker 3: watch clientele lasting dignity plan.
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  Speaker 10: 011-8838-947.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think? Kevin would like us to call
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  Speaker 3: his school to get him off the hook because he
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  Speaker 3: missed school, but he was there for athletics practice.
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  Speaker 1: 084-000-00947.
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  Speaker 3: Even if you're not a parent, chime in here. Chime
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  Speaker 3: in as a teacher. Chime in as a parent. Chime
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  Speaker 3: in as a child. We need all angles, all angles
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  Speaker 3: of opinion on this one before we decide what we're
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  Speaker 3: going to do. But me, I'm quite steadfast of where
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  Speaker 3: I am. You can try. You can try to change
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  Speaker 3: my mind.
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  Speaker 1: I can see how we got there, Kevin. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: I was hoping that you could help me call my school.
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  Speaker 4: So Friday morning, and I'm not feeling too well. So
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  Speaker 4: my mom says, I don't have to go to school
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  Speaker 4: in the morning, but I end up feeling a lot
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  Speaker 4: better in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: And I've got this.
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  Speaker 4: Big race coming up and I want to get my
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  Speaker 4: run in. So I go to athletics and.
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  Speaker 10: My Afrikaans teacher sees me and she says, is not
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  Speaker 10: too happy and she wants to set up a meeting
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  Speaker 10: because I was bunking school.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think? I'm in the wrong here.
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  Speaker 11: If you're not feeling well and you're not going to
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  Speaker 11: be able to participate in.
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  Speaker 1: The morning and you're feeling a lot better in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: as long as you make it to athletics, you're going.
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  Speaker 5: And what about the.
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  Speaker 7: Other way around?
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  Speaker 11: What if I'm okay the whole morning, I go to
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  Speaker 11: school and this afternoon I have athletics, but around about
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  Speaker 11: 12 o'clock. Let's say my tummy starts aching and now
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  Speaker 11: I can't go to that. Why is it seen as
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  Speaker 11: bunking in the morning if I am active the afternoon?
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  Speaker 11: But if I'm active the morning and then get sick,
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  Speaker 11: then it doesn't add up the same.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Kev, I hear you, but you should have just
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  Speaker 1: stayed at home.
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  Speaker 7: In life, optics and perception carries a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So sorry bud.
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  Speaker 3: There we go.
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  Speaker 1: Optics.
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  Speaker 3: Joe, do you realize that there's no woman calling in?
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  Speaker 3: It's all men because men and rules, you guys are there.
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  Speaker 7: You're flexible.
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  Speaker 8: You're there.
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  Speaker 3: You're there. And that's the point here. In life, optics
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  Speaker 3: and perception are absolutely everything. If you are perceived to
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  Speaker 3: be a person who prioritizes one thing over the other,
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  Speaker 3: that's what's going to stick. And that's why your African
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  Speaker 3: teacher wants a meeting.
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  Speaker 1: But I do like that comment there. What's the difference
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  Speaker 1: if I get sick by 12 and then I go home?
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  Speaker 3: But we saw you.
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  Speaker 1: Versus if I am feeling better by 12 and then
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  Speaker 1: I come to school.
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  Speaker 8: No, there's a difference, right? So I can be on
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  Speaker 8: the show this morning, for example. I mean, I'm coughing
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  Speaker 8: this morning. I'm here now because it's not that bad.
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  Speaker 8: But by the end of the show, I could be
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  Speaker 8: too sick to go and do the TV show, which
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  Speaker 8: starts at 2 p.m. So there's enough time for a
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  Speaker 8: decision to be made where it doesn't look like I'm
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  Speaker 8: prioritizing anything. I've come here because I felt better, but
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  Speaker 8: I've progressively got worse over the hours before the next commitment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kevin could have just easily gone to school and
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  Speaker 3: then be gone home by 10, 11. But that still
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't mean that he can go and attend athletics in
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  Speaker 3: the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: But if he had gone to school for the last hour,
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  Speaker 1: for example. to catch the last lesson.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, as in he felt, oh, so what'd you say?
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  Speaker 8: That's even worse.
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  Speaker 3: You, you, you, you banked all of school and then.
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  Speaker 5: Like, you came back, oh hello.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, you didn't feel like it and then at about 12,
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  Speaker 1: 12 o'clock you felt much better so you decided let
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  Speaker 1: me go to school to catch the last hour and
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  Speaker 1: then athletics.
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  Speaker 3: Also sensitizing us to the fact that you just want
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  Speaker 3: to go run on the field.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't really make sense to you.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get an expert in here. Rory Sung, good morning.
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  Speaker 12: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Rory. How are you? I'm good, and how are you?
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  Speaker 3: We are great. In your expert opinion, Rory Sang, in Pretoria,
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  Speaker 3: talk to us. What do you think Kevin was doing?
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  Speaker 12: I think it's kind of like a banking thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of like a banking thing.
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  Speaker 5: I think you guys.
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  Speaker 12: Cannot call the school.
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  Speaker 3: Say that again. You were breaking? I think you guys
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  Speaker 3: must not call the school. We must not call the school.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to ask Rory Sang. Have you done this?
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  Speaker 1: Have you bunked in the morning?
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  Speaker 12: Nah.
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  Speaker 1: Nah?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 3: Rory Sang is an upstanding citizen of that school. And
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  Speaker 3: Rory Sang is worried about our reputation as Anneli and
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  Speaker 3: the Club if we go around getting people off the
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  Speaker 3: hog for bunking school. Angeline, you're in the West Rand.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 12: Good morning, Anneli and the Club. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: We're good, Angeline.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 12: I'm good, thank you. Kevin, give me your school number.
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  Speaker 12: I will call them for you, my darling.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, why?
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  Speaker 12: Because, Anile, if you're working, you're contracted maybe from seven
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  Speaker 12: until two. Whatever you do after two, it's none of
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  Speaker 12: their business.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you only live once. Hey, Angelina.
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  Speaker 8: That is correct.
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  Speaker 12: And I'm a teacher, so that says a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so you would not mind your student missing school
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  Speaker 3: and then later on you see them on the netball field?
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  Speaker 12: Look, when he called in, he initially did say in
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  Speaker 12: the morning he didn't feel well and then after he
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  Speaker 12: felt better. And it happens, you know? So give the
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  Speaker 12: guy a chance, you know, benefit of the doubt.
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  Speaker 8: Wait, what subjects do you teach? This will help us decide.
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  Speaker 7: Where to put you.
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  Speaker 12: Timbegile are very controversial, but I'll tell you business management, accounting.
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  Speaker 12: I know that's right.
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  Speaker 8: When did accounting teachers get a personality? That was never part.
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  Speaker 7: Of the job.
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  Speaker 12: Wow. You see, that's when you were still in school.
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  Speaker 7: And I was barely there.
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  Speaker 3: Things have changed. Now kids can take a half day
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  Speaker 3: and rock up for what they want.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, guys.
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  Speaker 8: Because you know, math, accounting and science teachers were the
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  Speaker 8: guys who insisted on you being there.
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  Speaker 12: He did qualify a statement. He said he felt better.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And also, Angeline, he is not a doctor. This is
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  Speaker 3: another thing. You can't first diagnose yourself and then medicate
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  Speaker 3: yourself and then also tell yourself that you're feeling better.
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  Speaker 3: You can't do everything and then be like, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't good for that, but I'm good for this.
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  Speaker 3: And more than that, if you are not feeling well,
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  Speaker 3: doing physical activity, even though you think you're fine, this
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  Speaker 3: is why doctors say, we're going to book you off
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  Speaker 3: until this time. Don't do any physical activity until then.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 12: Right.
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  Speaker 3: The academics you can actually get away with doing. The
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  Speaker 3: physical one is the one that's actually going to make
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  Speaker 3: you worse. But he wouldn't know that because he's not what?
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  Speaker 3: A doctor. Do you know why he's not a doctor?
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  Speaker 3: Because he skipped science and math at school.
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  Speaker 12: But he knows what it feels.
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  Speaker 1: He does.
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  Speaker 12: Whatever he's feeling, he knows.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: So he knows when he's not feeling well. When a
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  Speaker 12: child has a headache, they can tell you.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 12: I'm not feeling well. I have a headache. And it
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  Speaker 12: can go away after a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you're the cool teacher, aren't you?
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  Speaker 12: No, I'm not. I'm just saying he did prefix whatever
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  Speaker 12: that he said. Kevin, give me your number.
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  Speaker 3: No! No, she's the teacher everybody goes to to want to, oh,
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  Speaker 3: please go speak to Mr. Van Scalf. He doesn't want
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  Speaker 3: us to do Angeline.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, I will.
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  Speaker 3: I can just hear it.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Auntie Anele. I was hoping that you could help
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  Speaker 5: me call.
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  Speaker 3: Look how he's trying to smooth me over. Hey, Auntie Anele. Oh, Kevin,
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  Speaker 3: I see what you're trying to do.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Auntie Anele.
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  Speaker 4: I was hoping that you could help me call my school.
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  Speaker 5: So Friday morning, and I'm not feeling too well, so.
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  Speaker 4: My mom says, I don't have to go to school
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  Speaker 4: in the morning, but I end up feeling a lot
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  Speaker 4: better in the afternoon. And I've got this big race
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  Speaker 4: coming up and I want to get my run in.
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  Speaker 4: So I go to athletics and my Afrikaans teacher sees
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  Speaker 4: me and she is not too happy. And she wants
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: to set up a meeting because I was bunking school.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: Do you think, I'm in the wrong here.
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: Guys, I think we're all missing a point here. That's
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: not bunking school. He wasn't feeling well. He's got permission
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: to stay at home. Bunking is when you get up
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: in the morning, you dress, pretending to go to school
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: and go to some other fun game arcade or whatever.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: So accurate.
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: That's bunking.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: What are we saying here? Are we saying that going
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: to athletics is not school? Because I believe it's school.
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: Hey guys, is that teacher's name Karen by any chance?
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: No, but it is exactly the definition of banking. Because
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: you are not at school, but you opt to do
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: other activities.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: So the time.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: You must remember, your teacher doesn't have the timelines of
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: what you decided to do when. All she has in
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: front of her. You must remember, guys, we all make
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: decisions based on our knowledge at the time, right? My
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: knowledge here, my information is you didn't come to school
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: because you were not in class. But then I saw
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: you doing something else later.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you find in sick, but we don't know
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: if you were sick. You don't have a sick note.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Because what's to say then you weren't running? Maybe you
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: did cricket and you did rugby and you were wrapping
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: it up with a little bit of athletics. It is banking.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: If we see you.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Do something else, but you weren't at school. Being absent
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: from school is being absent. We mustn't see you at
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: all until tomorrow.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: No, but look, as I say, I can't be this
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: strict with Kev. I've been there. I've had similar situations.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: And it was all with a good purpose. This is
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: what Kev is. You can hear Auntie Anele.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Listen to how nice he is.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: This is an upstanding boy. This boy is going to be.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: A head boy.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: Hey, Auntie Anele.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: It's not hey, Auntie Anele.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: Hey, Auntie Anele.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: See ya.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: You're in first, Laura. Good morning.
• 16:21
  Speaker 12: Good morning, my favorite people.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Morning. How are you?
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: How are you?
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, babe, we're split down the middle here. You know Kevin.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Hey, Kevin.
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: Oh, Kevin.
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: Oh, Kevin.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Guys, all right. Kevin is fine. You guys understand how
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: you can get.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Sick at night.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Like, you feel like you are dying. Definitely dying. But
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: in the morning, you're like, I'm actually feeling better. Like,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: it happens a lot, especially with kids. Like, I have
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: a kid, and I would not sleep the whole night.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I'm so worried. My child is not well. But in
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: the morning, when we got to the doctor, the doctor
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: was like, are you sure this is the same kid
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: you said you guys didn't sleep? I'm like, doctor, I'm
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: telling you, this is the same person.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: You're like, it's a miracle. It's a miracle. It's a miracle.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Something happened. I don't know what happened, but I'm here already,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: and I didn't go.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: To work, so.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Please, guys, just check whatever you can find because we
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: definitely didn't sleep, you know.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Okay, so here's what I'm willing to do because I'm
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: a reasonable person. Because sometimes that does happen where you
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: miss school in the beginning of the day because the
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: parents take you to the doctor. And then the doctor's like, no,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: you're fine. And then mom decides to go drop you
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: off at school.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: But now a doctor decided on that. Kevin, guys, self-diagnose.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I'm sick. I'm not going. I am better.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: His mom said it's fine. You can stay at home.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Guys, we know our bodies. We know our bodies. Sometimes
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: your body is just... Guys, you can't even lift a hand.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: And you're like, I am dying. I feel like something
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: is really, really wrong with me. And, you know, we
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: must listen to our bodies.
• 17:59
  Speaker 12: It's important.
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: And then.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: You don't want to get to work and then they're saying, no,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: go back, go back. You can't be working. You're going
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: to infect other people. You know, things like that. And
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: you've wasted petrol. You know how expensive petrol is.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: You've got a lot of explanations, ACI. You've got a
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: lot of explanations.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, I understand Kevin. I definitely do understand him.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I think the teacher is just too strict. Let's just
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: give him the benefit of the doubt. He sounds like
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: a nice kid.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. That's what I say, Sia. A benefit of
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the doubt. Came from a good place.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Good heart.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Came to athletics.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Exactly. He didn't have any bad intent.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I'm on the teacher's side. All teachers must... Every child
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: is guilty until proven otherwise.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: You rocked the other way around.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: The other way around. You walk in guilty and then
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: you work your way back from guilt. There ain't no ways. Nazeer,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: are you wrapping it up for us? You're in four ways.
• 18:54
  Speaker 12: Yeah, hi, Nila. How are you?
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I am great, Nazira. How are you?
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Good, thank you.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, no.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Kevin must go to his meeting with his mom.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no.
• 19:03
  Speaker 12: You're not academically fit for school. I understand sports can
• 19:07
  Speaker 12: technically be accounted as school, but you're not showing up
• 19:12
  Speaker 12: for drama units if you've not sat in from seven
• 19:14
  Speaker 12: to three.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: It's simple.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: I think also the principle in a corporate environment, like
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: the one person said, you miss a leadership meeting and
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: you rock.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Up for the party.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, hey!
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, values, principles, again, fun, we're cool, we're
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: all those things, but Yeah, guys, we're there for a reason.
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Let's keep it simple.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Nazira, what are you doing in November? Would you like
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: to run for mayor of Johannesburg? I'll vote for you.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm competing with Helen at the moment as we speak.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Neck and neck. Maybe it's Helen and then you are
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: her deputy, but neck and neck.
• 19:46
  Speaker 12: I like it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: There we go. There we go. go, Nazira.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Wow, she's just as strict as what you are.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: But guys, and here's the thing, hey? I love it
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: for all of us that our kids love sport and
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: all of that. But you... The reason.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: you are.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Sending your child to school where they then and I'm
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: glad even if they're like a star athlete and they're
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: going to be the next Siako Elisi but you're going
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: to school for an education that's the first priority everything
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: else is an added extra even me in my household
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I'm always like yeah yeah yeah don't tell me about
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: cricket It's academics and then everything else is an added extra.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Doing wildlife academics allows you to be able to then
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: play hockey and water polo and cricket and athletics and rugby.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: The entrance, the barrier to entry to do sports is academics.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: So when you don't attend the academics, we take your
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: ticket away for sport.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Like a punishment.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: You're not going to school to do sports and school. No, no, no, no, no.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: You're going to school for an education. And once you've
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: done this one, then you can do that one. Because
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: think about it. Some schools train in the morning.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, before school.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: What was he going to do then? Was he going
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: to go train and then go home because he's sick?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: But I was going to ask, what if that happens?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: What if he trains and then he doesn't feel well
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: at training and then he has to go home?
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: You said you're not well trained. You said you're not well.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Stay at home. The whole day. You can't go one
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: or the other.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: So basically attend class if you want to attend extramural.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Exactly my point. Sorry, Kevin. I'm not calling your school.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Love you though, buddy.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I love you, Kevin. And I get what happened. I'm
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: sorry this happened. Don't worry. These things will fly over.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Don't worry.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: Live strong.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, live strong.