Our outrage is missing when it comes to poor kids in the classroom January 29, 2021 — 11.55pm Normal text size Advertisement As a prelude to the release of VCE results in December, this paper tracked down top students from previous years to see where they landed. Patrick Walker got an ATAR of 99.95 in 2011 and is training to be a paediatrician. Credit:Penny Stephens One of them, Patrick Walker, a 2011 graduate from McKinnon Secondary College, shared some observations that stayed with me. Walker’s perfect ATAR – the competitive ranking system for university admissions – got him into medicine at Monash University. Once there, he was struck by the realisation he was one of the few medical students who attended a public school.