My DD has just started y12 at the school she has attended since y7. She was encouraged to stay and submitted her ALevel choices in January: Music, Spanish, Film Studies. She achieved the necessary GCSE results and went to enrol, to discover that all her 3 subjects clashed. I was there and spoke to one of the deputy heads, who said it could be sorted out. DD completed application form. She started school a few weeks later and faced the same situation, clashes still there but nobody had called us or informed us. She dropped Film Studies in favour of English Lit. Next she found that Music and Spanish clashed. Again, all after school had started.
All through y11 she was actively encouraged to stay as long as she did well in her GCSEs, no word of any timetable issues. But now we have been trying to sort this out for weeks, I have offered to do Spanish privately so she can stay there as the Music dept is so good and she is in all the bands and ensembles, she would have to give that up - she was offered places in other schools with good music depts. and turned them down as she was encouraged to stay here. Last week the head of languages told me we could do Spanish privately and use schools scheme of work and resources as I teach Alevel Spanish with same exam board. Today my DD has been told by head of Sixth Form that she cannot do this as it's against school rules. It is now mid September. What I find outrageous is the lack of communication:
- when putting timetables together, all students submitted their application to the school with their ALevel choices in December/January. No excuse not to tell us there were clashes.
- since September, despite all this nobody has contacted me.
I am so frustrated and angry!