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“You guys just don’t fucking understand!”

“I have got 3 exams in one week!”

“There’s no way I can study for all these exams at once!”

Those are the pathetic cries of current year 12 student, Danika Fernly. Danika, like many other year-12 students before her, is under the illusion that she is the first person to experience stress from the HSC exams.

“I need special consideration, or something!”

According to Danika’s mum, Beth, Danika has been carrying on a little bit too much.

“I’m just about sick of her complaining to be honest, I’ve got real stresses on my plate. Like being a single mother paying for my daughter to go through private school, while also paying off a mortgage. If she wants stress she should take a walk in my shoes for a day.”

“Bloody special consideration, life doesn’t give you special consideration!”

“The way the media, ABC in particular, pander to year 12 students shits me to tears. That’s why we’re pumping out a generation of wusses, because everyone is too scared to tell them to suck it up.”

While Beth may have let her frustrations clear to our reporter, the front she puts on for Danika is the complete opposite. To Danika’s face Beth is much like every other parent; telling their child that they are special, and the HSC is hard and if it’s too stressful just take a break – a two-faced-phenomena that is in fact just perpetuating the cycle of wussiness everyone is so sick and tired of.