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Good Sorts: The South Auckland teachers selling science to their students, and cleaning up a local creek in the process

November 11, 2018

They decided to clean up the Mangere school's creek and didn't they realise the impact it'd have on their students' grades.

This week’s Good Sorts is a pair of school teachers from De La Salle College in Māngere, South Auckland

Kane Raukura and Ajinesh Kumar run the science department at the school and when they decided to clean up the local creek, little did they realise what they would be doing to their students’ grades.

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