Simply being average is nothing to be ashamed of

In the wake of a spate of newspaper articles heralding those who aced the Leaving Cert, we should not forget those who just did OK are in the majority, writes Clodagh Finn

THAT day still haunts us: my best friend and I picked up our Leaving Cert results and felt the dull thud of something that was pitiable even then – we were irrevocably average and now we had the grades to prove it.

We kept schtum, of course, because nobody wanted to hear from a pair of underperforming school-leavers who had done “all right, really” in what continues to be an overhyped and overvalued indicator of human intelligence or worse, human worth.