A common discussion in my school at present concerns the sheer size of content + assessments required in some COS - people are anguishing over the amount of work they have to get through in the time available. Some schools already some years ago started the trend towards running Year 12 final exams during the October break and there is seemingly even more of a push for it with new COS coming increasingly online in Year 12 - my opinion has always been that that term break (I refuse to call it a 'holiday' in respect of Year 12 students) should be time for them to work independently on organizing their final study push and getting that underway, not have it taken up with formal school-scheduled events including exams.
Anyway, one of our English teachers chipped into the discussion and said that other teachers will now need to push for each COS to be made more 'reasonable' in scope, as happened in English. It took them several years of hard and sometimes unpleasant agitation, but their course has now been brought into a more appropriate form. So I thought I would pass that on and encourage teachers in other COS to not regard the current shape of their courses as immovably monolithic, but capable of still being revised where a genuine problem such as an impossible work volume for the time allowed can be demonstrated to exist.
