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Two maverick high schools that flipped the traditional teacher-student dynamic and gave their pupils a bigger say in the structure and content of their education have achieved their best ever VCE results in 2020.
Templestowe College once declared RIP VCE , so it might seem surprising that it just achieved a cherished median study score of 30 in the mainstream student performance measure it ceremonially buried just four years ago.
Templestowe College principal Peter Ellis with maths students earlier this year.
But principal Peter Ellis said it was a result of the school s philosophy that allows students to steer their own studies.
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Haniyah Abou-Said had an even bigger taste of life in lockdown than most Melburnians this year.
The Flemington public housing tower in which she lives with her family was put under hard and immediate lockdown while she was on school holidays in July, as the Andrews government sought to contain a dangerous COVID-19 outbreak.
Haniyah Abou-Said says her VCE result is strong enough to get her into her dream course, a bachelor of fashion and textiles.
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But as holidays bled into term three and Haniyah stayed cooped up in her family apartment all day, the year 12 student at Mount Alexander College felt confident and relaxed about her looming exams.