John Kelly is a school teacher from Adelaide.Each year around September when the Grand Final is over, when new birds sing and buds break into bloom, the button is pressed on the Stress Machine: banner headlines in the press and articles featuring fretful students and peer panic abound. The bogey? Public examinations.Each year, too, the commotion is noisier than the previous year’s, with advocates for abolishing exams bleating louder than ever: mainly educational experts and apparatchiks who, …
