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Urgent advice needed. Meeting tomorrow.

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Devsmum13 · 08/10/2025 20:10

Hello,

My son is not enjoying T Levels. Not enough people signed up for his original IT course, so sixth form put on a coding course in September. (He should have been told on results day but they forgot). He has moaned non stop to his sixth form tutor and at home. Sixth form have asked me to go in for a meeting with the council tomorrow afternoon. I know they will ask for him to leave immediately.

It is a specialist Technical Sixth form.
The council suggested it because it is small and has the academic.

He would have loved the original course. No where else can meet need, and he hasn't got the grades for a school sixth form. He will be placed at a college for autistic students that requires improvement possibly without the IT element.

Things would have been different if his original course has run.

I understand why we need to have this meeting. My son is very bright. He will not learn if he doesn't buckle down and work but If he doesn't like the course and it isn't something he wants to do, he isn't going to try.

He passed all his GCSEs but with much lower grades due to the crappy Senco not understanding the EHCP at his secondary school. He only got in to sixth form because of his EHCP. He won't be able to cope with a school sixth form, and hasn't got the grades anyway..

Any advice would be appreciated. I feel like a failure.

Many thanks.

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Devsmum13 · 09/10/2025 18:04

Update
LA caseworker couldn't attend. He doesn't want to do the course, so they see no point in him staying. They haven't got any alternatives. He can stay on until the LA caseworker finds somewhere else. I think he has accepted it. If he wants to do Computer Science he wants to do Computer Science and the council need to find him somewhere suitable. Last time the majority said they couldn't meet need after looking at his EHCP 😒

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Devsmum13 · 09/10/2025 11:24

TeenToTwenties · 09/10/2025 07:22

I think this is good advice.

Additionally:
Is there a level 2 course he could drop down to for the year whilst re-thinking level 3 options? With his EHCP he can take a slow route through FE if needed.

I can't afford for him to do any 'slow route' unfortunately. I am a single parent with a low paid job. If he doesn't get the grades for University at 18 he will be expected to get a job then do a evening course in his own time.

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TeenToTwenties · 09/10/2025 07:22

Thingsthatgo · 08/10/2025 20:35

If it were me I would have a conversation with DS about what the best outcome of this meeting would be. It’s disappointing about the original course, but it’s not running and now DS needs to decide what he would like going forward. Are there any other options?
if the only other choice is worse, will he see the benefit in persevering with the IT course?
Have a think about what the best realistic outcome would be, and work towards that.

I think this is good advice.

Additionally:
Is there a level 2 course he could drop down to for the year whilst re-thinking level 3 options? With his EHCP he can take a slow route through FE if needed.

Thingsthatgo · 08/10/2025 20:35

If it were me I would have a conversation with DS about what the best outcome of this meeting would be. It’s disappointing about the original course, but it’s not running and now DS needs to decide what he would like going forward. Are there any other options?
if the only other choice is worse, will he see the benefit in persevering with the IT course?
Have a think about what the best realistic outcome would be, and work towards that.

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