Year 12 students in New South Wales (NSW) will spend their last weeks of high school at home due to harsh lockdown restrictions, with those in Greater Sydney enduring eight weeks and counting, of stay-at-home orders.
Two friends and co-captains of their school in Sydney, Erika Yu and Stephanie Nwosu, have just finished sitting their HSC trial exams that were held online.
Yu and Nwosu told The Epoch Times on Aug. 29 that home learning has added more stress on top of an already overwhelming period of time.
They both missed being surrounded by their friends and were extremely disappointed that their opportunity to carry out tasks as school captains had been cut short.
“I have definitely missed school. I miss the interactions with other students and teachers,” Nwosu said. “We [also] haven’t been able to do Year 12 celebrations as normal, which is really sad.”
“Like Stephanie said, we talk about this all the time, and we would never have guessed that our last term of high school would be spent at home,” Yu added. “And for many students, including me, their last term is spent almost completely in their bedrooms.”
While initially, a novel experience, learning from home has turned into a challenge. Motivation is becoming more difficult to find, and trying to stay on top of their studies is becoming more difficult with the range of distractions at home.
Yu said she had originally taken advantage of the flexibility of online learning by creating her own schedules. However, the enjoyment gradually turned into exhaustion after one month.
