VCE 2022: Year 12 muck-up days under microscope after Scotch College teacher's injury
Scotch College has yet to communicate with its community about a muck-up day incident which led to a teacher being taken to hospital.
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Scotch College has yet to communicate with its community about a muck-up day incident which led to a teacher being taken to hospital.
It is understood the teacher from Scotch College, in Hawthorn, Melbourne's inner-city, was trying to protect younger students from a group of Year 12s dressed in hazmat suits on Friday.
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