On the release of the 2018 Higher School Certificate results, the Bay Post/Moruya Examiner congratulates the 17 students who made the state’s list of Distinguished Achievers.
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We also congratulate those we interviewed yesterday for their cool, calm and collected attitudes towards what can be a vastly overwrought and unnecessarily stressful time.
By many accounts, their counterparts in metropolitan areas are far more strung out over the HSC.
By our interactions in recent years with students in the Eurobodalla Shire, it seems the message the HSC is not the end of the world is getting through.
They have impressed with their relaxed but focused attitudes to their studies and their ambitions.
Perhaps that is one of the good things about growing up in a small town – the very intimacy of a smaller school means stresses are more likely to be noticed, acknowledged and discussed.
Far from the hothouses of hugely expensive private colleges and bitterly contested spots for public selective high schools, our students just seem to get on with it.
Yet, making the distinguished achiever honour roll is no easy task.
You must score in the top 10 per cent of marks for your respective subject.
It is hard enough to do it once, let alone three times.
St Peter’s Anglican College students Elise Toyer and Batemans Bay High School students Peta Halliburton scored three band six results.
Moruya High School’s Reuben Ryan scored two, as did Carroll College’s Brogan Dragisic.
Well done.
Some argue the media adds to the stress by turning our attention to those who do well. Yet no-one complains when we celebrate sporting achievements.
Young people who put their bright minds to academic achievements are our future and deserve our applause.
Elise Toyer (pictured) plans to help others in a career in remote medicine. We wish her and her peers the very best.
Congratulations also to Batemans Bay High School’s Aimee Gould and Monique Perry; Moruya High School’s Asha Martin; St Peter’s Lachlan Bice, Finn O’Donnell and Scott Suter; Carroll College’s Ruby De Rover, Georgia Gilham, Sarah Hall, Abbey Hillyar and Molly Porter.