Alison O'Connor: Let the pandemic's silver lining be Leaving Cert reform

No matter how obdurate you've been for years, a pandemic arrived and brought sweeping changes, writes Alison O'Connor

Leaving Cert exams will take place in June, but students will also have the option to avail of a modified calculated grades process. Picture: Dan Lienhan

What a horrible time it has been for the Leaving Certificate students of this year and last, as well as their parents. Let it be a consolation that their travails will not be in vain. Surely those coming after them will benefit from the loosening of the death-like grip that has been on this exam that has been so badly in need of reform for so long.

Even Covid has an upside very occasionally. This is one of those.