GCSEs are failing stress test as students suffer

‘There is no justifiable reason to subject 16-year-old pupils to numerous stressful examinations, other than the government’s obsession with league tables and accountability,’ says Susan Newton.Sally Weale’s article (‘My lunchtimes are filled with crying children’, 17 May) sheds some light on what people my age go through.Many people I know suffer from depression and anxiety, we lose sleep, we don’t want to wake up in the mornings and we are afraid to wa