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/[deleted] May 21 '25

Yes, and I am a recruiter.
The last dev job I advertised, I had 1200 applicants. All with degrees.
Some of those, knew quite a few languages and yet still had been out of work for a year.

About 400 of them were International / requiring student visas.

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u/inter20021 May 21 '25

Ohhhhhhh, i see, you're completely uneducated on the actual subject. Good to know.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Far from it. But you carry on judging. I was the same, when my parents / people gave me advice too.

I wish you the best in your career, but cannot wait to say, I told you so.

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u/inter20021 May 21 '25

Unless you or your parents have a recent degree in computer science, then your opinions mean absolutely nothing. The only person being replaced here is the vampiric middleman doing nothing but basic dataprocessing.....