Sarah Kanowski

But then I felt like because I had the military training, I could keep going, that it was a worthy fight.

We're doing this with the right intentions.

We'd been told to transform the school.

We were going to get 10 kids into university.

It was going to be a beacon of hope for the whole township.

Like I was waking up every morning in excess on let's go every single day.

And the military had taught me to do that.

But then it got to a point where...

I lost the students.

And that was, they were the reason I kept going, but then I realised that I'd lost them.

So one afternoon, I could see Caitlin's teaching 80 kids in her class.

I'd finished for the day with my students and I see the last teacher we have left come past.

His name's Peters.

Local guy, lovely guy, brilliant.

I invite him into our house and we sit down, we have a cup of tea and I'm just talking about, I'm trying to motivate him like I would do with a sailor when I was in the military.

And he interrupts me and he says, Aaron, you need to leave.

I said, we're not leaving.

We're going to get this done.

Ten kids are going to university because of this school.

And he interrupts me again.