I ask because my (almost 15 year old) dd has been having all sorts of problems with school over the last 18 months or so. I actually took her out of school completely for several months, thinking that home ed could be the answer, but it was a disaster, and she chose to go back to school. However, since then she has started absconding from school and is showing virtually no interest in completing her coursework, except for those subjects which interest her.
She's only ever wanted to do one thing, and that's go to art school. Art is the only subject she is motivated to work at. If she carries on as she is, she will simply fail all her GCSEs, not through lack of ability, but through lack of application.
I would much prefer her to stay at school and do her GCSEs, but at the same time I can see some merit in the idea of pulling her out of school now, if it were possible for her to enrol on an art foundation course at an FE college.
So my question is, is that a possibility? She would be able to present a portfolio of work, but I'm assuming that they won't take anyone under 16.
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spacedonkey · 17/01/2006 13:07
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