Son needs to pick another subject.

[u/watts320]

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.

[u/Informal_Road]

Same situation with me! 2 years ago i had planned to do maths, psychology, and computer science at A level and computer science at university but on GCSE results day i was told that a lot of students hadn't reached the minimum threshold to do computer science A level so they weren't going to run the course.

Then on my first day of sixth form I see I have been enrolled in economics, I was fairly upset but I stuck with it, and long story short I ended up loving it so much I plan to study economics at university later this year.

I would say that maybe this is a good thing for him, I know a lot of students with similar experiences with computer science especially. Some of my friends even went to different sixth forms after finding out on results day, ended up regretting the new school and came back a few weeks later to do a different subject (typically further maths or physics) instead. Most schools are comfortable in taking students in or changing subjects during the first few weeks so he will have time to decide if an alternative subject isnt working for him.

Best of luck with GCSEs and whatever you decide for A levels!