The government’s plan for the end-of-year examinations for grades 10 and 11 is a joke – except it will ruin the lives of tens of thousands of children. That makes Circular S7 of 2020’s “revised promotion requirements” no laughing matter at all. It really is a pity that our journalism is so weak as to swallow the official line in headlines like “Government scraps final exams”. It did nothing of the sort...