They are the students who have been forced to bear more than is reasonable in their final year of high school.
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Since March, when parents began taking their children out of school due to fears over the COVID pandemic, Year 12 students have had to adapt to constant change and disruption.
Events have been cancelled, postponed or remodelled to suit ever-shifting regulations.
At Orange High School the final year cohort had their final assembly last week.
Parents would normally attend the celebration, but this year that wasn't possible.
So a planned was hatched.
The school would contact parents and guardians on the lowdown and ask them to supply images of themselves.
The school would then blow them up to life size, cut them out and rest them on the chairs where parents and guardians would otherwise sit.
When the students entered the hall it took a moment to realise that these were not just random faces on the chairs.
Tears were said to have followed.
"I thought it was fantastic," said parent Ben Macpherson, who appeared via cardboard cutout with his wife Meredith.
Their daughter Anna is sitting the HSC this year.
"There's nothing worse than having an empty hall for such an important presentation, so the idea that we could be there semi-physically was a really nice gesture," Mr Macpherson said.
"The school and the teachers have been fabulously supportive, and the cardboard cutouts were part of that thoughfulness."
Year 12 exams start on Tuesday.
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