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It starts like any other lunch hour at Parks State High School - tired students stream out of classrooms, anxious for a break.
Teachers gather in the staffroom, swapping stories of problematic kids. But over the space of THIS hour, one teacher's life is about to be blown up by an image posted to social media.
How the kids and adults react is the premise of a humorous and remarkably insightful book by Australian author Sita Walker called In a Common Hour.
Sita's insight comes from spending 20 year as a high school teacher herself.
She says in her view: "Most people, most kids are good kids - most of the time.
And even the bad kids are good kids, underneath it all".
This is Sita's first novel, but her first work was an intergenerational memoir called The God of No Good, which detailed her experience growing up in the Baháʼí faith.
