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Speaker 1: Jum mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: I've got a lovely email, an email that really pierces

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Speaker 2: my heart as well, so I'll read it out if

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Speaker 2: that's all right.

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Speaker 1: You wan to give the clinics, you know, I think.

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Speaker 2: I'll be okay, Amanda, Given that we are the same

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Speaker 2: age and we both have Year twelve children, your comments

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Speaker 2: about the heartbreak we parents feel for these fabulous, aspirational

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Speaker 2: young people living and studying through the worst scenario imaginable

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Speaker 2: really struck a chord. I'm constantly reminded of the highlights

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Speaker 2: and excitement, recognition and reward, the end of school events

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Speaker 2: and formals, life memories that have been stolen by this

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Speaker 2: rotten virus, and just feel so dreadful that we can

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Speaker 2: do absolutely nothing about it. It's so corrosive to the

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Speaker 2: human spirit. So, with child number three's trial exams starting

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Speaker 2: this week, a huge shout out to all our Year

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Speaker 2: twelve future leaders from we aged parents who have sacrificed

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Speaker 2: so much to get you to this point. I might actually,

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Speaker 2: while we were equally or even more disappointed in the

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Speaker 2: way things have turned out, we are also supremely confident

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Speaker 2: that after this horrid period of social and personal dislocation.

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Speaker 2: Nothing will seem so hard in the years to come,

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Speaker 2: except maybe being a parent yourself. You are loved, you

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Speaker 2: are precious, you are brilliant, and we are with you.

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Speaker 2: Regards a loyal listener. I don't want you to disclose

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Speaker 2: my name because it will embarrass my child. But yes,

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Speaker 2: trials have started this week. I know at some schools

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Speaker 2: trials aren't being countered towards that mark. Other schools are

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Speaker 2: doing them with kids remotely at home, having to get

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Speaker 2: their laptops to show there's no one else helping them

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Speaker 2: in the room. Cameras on a hand.

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Speaker 1: You haven't rung in a professor or anything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's These are extraordinary circumstances in which

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Speaker 2: to complete your schooling without the rights of passage that

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Speaker 2: have got you there, the final assemblies, the final this,

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Speaker 2: the eighteenth birthdays, all that stuff. So the year of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, like last year, absolute heroes. The resilience

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Speaker 2: you are showing and the way you have to pivot

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Speaker 2: through this is extraordinary, and our hats go off.

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Speaker 1: If you're a big slacky pants would be pretty good too,

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Speaker 1: that I would rain in this time.

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Speaker 2: You we still don't know what's happening with the HSC.

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Speaker 2: It's not foot off the gas.

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Speaker 1: And I would be easily because I I could cheat

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Speaker 1: like nobody's business in this one, be able to do

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Speaker 1: it easy. Have Google just sitting right next to you,

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Speaker 1: well one of.

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Speaker 2: Them open book, but you're not allowed to use computers

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Speaker 2: to cheat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know you know what it is, and

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Speaker 1: you know it would backfire though, because all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden I would do so well and I get this

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Speaker 1: atar that was out of the world, and then I'd

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Speaker 1: have to be a brain surgeon, and then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, I'd be in the brain surgery room doing

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Speaker 1: brains at the hospital, doing brain surgery, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden.

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Speaker 2: Maybe start on yourself, how did I get here? How

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Speaker 2: did you get here?

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Speaker 1: I'm like doctor Dean, you know, we started with.

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Speaker 2: A very nice email and we've ended up with you

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Speaker 2: as a brain surgeon. It's a funny old world circle,

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Speaker 2: isn't it.

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Speaker 1: And Amanda's