VCE Lite again

Sunshine Secondary College teacher Chris Wheat argues that "the anxiety about the reduction of reading requirements at year 12 appears to be an argument about appearance, not substance";

The new English design strikes me as a serious attempt to think about the needs of this generation. It's a design that recognises that the ancient chorus of concern about the state of their written English will not be addressed by increasing the number of books they read, but by engaging them more closely with the language and that should be done by moving the course onto their own turf. It seems to recognise that the young are immersed in a world that absorbs them far more than the one we think they should appreciate.

Open Classroom agrees;

Commentators are fond of saying the world is different now. And in many ways I am glad that it is. But students need something different from teachers now too. And what we teach our students must recognise this as well. The draft study design is an attempt to cater for this realisation. The two main areas of concern are the reduced number of literary texts, and the inclusion of a new area of study called Creating and Responding. In this space there is the opportunity to make better connections with our students