If you put together a nice, solid VCE, say anywhere from average to very good, you aren't there. If you're doing your VCE at a TAFE or other VET-sector college, you aren't there. If you live outside Melbourne, you're not there. Nor are you there if you are a mature-aged student, or a student with disabilities, or studying by distance education. Of course the reality of the VCE is much more important than images of it, and in this case reality is much, much better than image.
Images matter particularly to teenagers.
It is the time when we find out where we fit, who we are and what we might become. Teenagers' heads are full of images and imaginings. The paradox is that by depicting success in such narrow and excluding terms, the Guide to the VCE 2000 will make most kids feel like failures. These six images shouldn't have been thought of in the first place, let alone get approved for publication. The Board of Studies, for all its good work as developer and custodian of the VCE, needs to ask how on earth this happened, and make sure it doesn't happen again.