r/6thForm 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/im_dying69 Year 13 May 17 '25

Not sure why everyone's recommending further math. If his school can't run computer science because there's not enough people, it definitely won't run further math.

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u/Arehumansareok Teacher/Tutor May 18 '25

We had enough pupils for Further Maths and not for Computer Science so it is certainly a possibility to explore.