ABSTRACT
The students of Addison Hills largely come to school by bus. This obvious feature of his school intrigued Stephen Kemmis and he draws imagery from it. It serves equally well for both the other two schools. In each school, students perceive schooling as inevitable – the place where they are between periods at home and in the real society. School also occupies the passage of time before the world of work is entered. Each school, however, did have a community setting and primarily drew its students from a designated geographical area. In the Addison Hill's report there is a sense of wider personal and social culture interrupted by schooling. At Purdah there is schooling attempting to ignore or defy a culture out there. None of the schools faced with any confidence or with stability the task of offering more than one type of educational program.
