The pressures of VCE and the uncertainties of the future plague each student in the system, in different ways, and this means that different supports are needed, writes Ahelee Rahman, a Year 12 student | OPINION education
While Year 12 and its challenges can be generally seen as insignificant in life’s bigger picture, for most students this is the largest, most enduring and consuming obstacle they have faced in their lives so far. And like all obstacles, we need help overcoming them.
or carefully curating their calendars to work from home after their Year 12s finish school in the afternoon.It seems ironic that at a time when young people are supposed to transition into adults and start to seek independence from their parents, we begin to depend on our parents more – they become our shoulders to cry on after a hard day, companions for our late night trips to Officeworks, or study mates by quizzing us on key concepts before an important SAC.
No matter how often schools, educators or commentators tell us that our ATARs and study scores don’t define us, for those few weeks until we can solidify plans for the next few years of our lives, they do. And ultimately, as much as we are grateful for their support in navigating VCE, it is also hard to trust their words when so much of their messaging around education drastically changes in Year 11 and 12.
From primary school, we were told to forget about our grades, and instead focus on the pursuit for deeper knowledge that would set us up for life.A few years later, when we start Year 11, the focus changes to memorising the study design, with stress levels too high to even consider going “deeper” in our pursuit for knowledge.
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