I've seen a few comments about the use of Year 11 marks, and I agree it sounds like a terrible idea (and I say that as a student who didn't know how not to be serious, and I think I got as good marks in Year 11 as Year 12). It's a bad situation all round, and it's not your fault, and it sucks whichever solution they come up with.
HoweverSometimes that's life. Sometimes things don't work the way you expected or thought they would work. Sometimes you are judged on performance at tasks that you thought were unimportant. Sometimes your actions have consequences that neither you nor anyone else could foresee. Personally, I've lost count of the number of times I've found the world didn't work as I'd been taught it would. Some of them felt quite unfair, but that's life.
So many are affected: The person who switched jobs shortly before Covid-19 blew up and is now unemployed. Or has found their job non-essential. Or moved state or country and is unable to get unemployment benefits. Or signed a new lease. Or booked their dream holiday. Or planned their wedding. Or was on the verge of retiring and had their plans upset by the stock market crash. Basically
everyone has made plans or had goals or made decisions based on the world staying much the same as 2019, and clearly it isn't, and some are going to be in a better place to deal with that than others.
A friend in the US just made this comment:
Pro tip: Don't make huge life changes less than a year before a pandemic shuts the world down. It causes some complications.
And the same helpful "advice" applies for Year 12s now:
Pro tip: Don't do Year 12 in the year a pandemic shuts the world down. It causes some complications.
None of us planned or expected for 2020 to turn out like it has so far. All of us have to figure out how to deal with it. We're making it up as we go, and sadly some of the attempted solutions will hurt some more than others. I'm not trying to suggest your pain doesn't matter, because it does. But, whatever they come up with and whatever the situation looks like later in the year, we don't have an option for a normal Year 12 in 2020. That's not fair, but it is life.