Please help oh wise ones.
Have come home from dtr's GCSE option evening tonight. She has to take:
English Language
English Literature
Maths
Physics/Biology/Chemistry
MFL
She has to pick a humanity subject from:
History
Geography
Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
She then gets to choose two 'free choice' subjects
For the humanity she wants to choose RPE and her two extra choices are Art and Drama.
Nothing wrong with her choices per se but she has never expressed any interest in Art or Drama other than enjoying her Drama class.
The problem is that she wants, desperately, to be a Paediatric Oncologist and I think she is picking too many 'arty' subjects (and I'm convinced that I have read previously that RPE is seen by many universities as a 'soft' subject).
I have suggested that she takes History and then can take two of the other subjects (RPE and Drama) but I am utterly unreasonable it would seem.
So, am I unreasonable? Should I just let her study what she wants and acknowledge what the Careers Teacher said in that Med School are not that bothered about what GCSEs are only that she is a grade A* student across all subjects.
I feel incredulous that we are having conversations about what she wants to do for the rest of her life and she has only just turned 13! And I am scared that she will scupper her chances by making the wrong choices now.
Wise words needed.
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LaydeeC · 27/11/2012 23:24
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