Ds2 has just started a school (last summer) where they enter early for RE and Science. He has an EHCP for dyslexia. It is mainstream state school.
The school has a policy of not allowing children into the Sixth form with a low grade in RE, and not many sixth forms (let alone this one which demands A at in GSCE science) allow children to do A level science without a B..so if he does the GSCE early and gets a C in core science and lower than a C in RE, a lot of possibilities are closed to him.
At the moment he is predicted 4's in both, based on a test he took when he arrived at the school, rather than his CAT score in Year 7 (a different school) He is achieving an E in the RE atm, because he didn't cover the Year 9 curriculum (as he wasn't there).
Can I reasonably ask what benefit entering him early will have for him? I understand the school is set up like this, but for some pupils it will limit their options later on, to take something early which they do badly in, although by the school's measure, they have "passed" and met "targets". Ds is capable of more, and he has only just received an EHCP to give him that extra support in this new school.
I've emailed, but I wonder whether the school are going to budge, if this is what "everyone" does.