With trust in government at an all-time low, children – and their parents – are now rejecting the education system. Amid a school refusal epidemic and a growing anti-exam movement, Chloe Combi delves deeper into why thousands of students won’t sit their GCSEs this year A s most parents of 15- and 16-year-olds do not need to be told, the nerve-wracking countdown to this summer’s GCSEs has begun. In a matter of weeks, it will be time for the May rite of passage that, since the first exams in 1988,