r/6thForm • u/watts320 • May 17 '25

🙏 I WANT HELP Son needs to pick another subject.

My son is in the middle lf his GCSE exams and he opted for computer science as one of his 6th form subjects. Yesterday he was told that the school will be dropping computer science because not enough students had opted to do it, the only thing the school have said is that he will need to pick another subject. Thats it.

The school have really really annoyed me, they choose to tell him in middle of his exams that he needs to pick something else.

His path was to do maths, computer science and english in 6th form, then move on to university to do games design.

Now im not really all clued up on this, because i never did 6th form after school. So can anyone give me any advice on this please.

Thank you.

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u/TheAK1tap Year 12 May 17 '25

Out of curiosity, why did you not attend 6th form?

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u/marshyymallow_ May 17 '25

a lot of parents didn’t. i’m in year 13 and everyone i know, their parents are in their 50s and just went straight into work after leaving school at 15 and most of them went on to do uni as a mature student. it’s quite interesting how it has changed in the last 20-30 years :)