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In ordinary circumstances, year 12 student Melika Azimi would have spent this week entirely focused on her trial HSC exams. Instead, the school captain at Arthur Phillip High School in Parramatta was drafting a petition to the state government.
“I believe our opinion needs to be heard,” she says. “We have lost tremendous amounts of one-on-one learning time in school settings with our teachers, even going way back to the lockdown of 2020. [We are] pushing ourselves every day to show up with full diligence in an environment that is not able to equip us with the resources that are needed. We are already struggling.”