Also, the "centre-assessed grades" are not just whatever the teachers conjured up in their imaginations as likely results for their students. They had to backed up by reference to each student's results in earlier course work and exams, balanced against previous result patterns from previous years' students, those patterns compared against national averages. All this was done during the weeks after it became clear that there would be no exams. The powers that be changed their minds several times about exactly what would data, personal, local and national, was to be in the calculations, so it all had to be calculated again. Then at the last minute they changed it yet again.
If anyone else tells me that teachers, heads of departments, headteachers, admin and IT staff- the whole teaching establishment - have been sitting on their backsides for months on full pay eating chocolates and watching daytime TV they may regret it.
Is there such a thing as delicious ready meals?