To make my daughter stay on at school?

[Imisspeg]

My daughter is in sixth year nearly 18 and due to leave school in June.I have been very fortunate that she is an extremely hard worker and has achieved fantastic results in her Nat 5's and highers.She has always seemed to enjoy school and would also willingly take part in the other school activities like sponsored walks etc .She has applied for 5 universities and so far has had 4 unconditional offers which we are extremely proud.Since the second lockdown she seems to just basically be fed up and over school and one of her subjects which she used to love seems to have slided a bit and she appears to have lost focus which is understandable as who isn't fed up especially teenagers.She mentioned to me that she just wasn't enjoying school anymore and was pretty unhappy and could she leave school since she had her uni offers and she would work in her part time job to build up her money for uni. Her dad and I were at first ok with this given that she had worked so hard and had the uni offers until her head of year phoned.My daughter had sent in an email indicating her intentions to leave and she wanted to discuss this with me.She explained that as this years results were on teacher recommendations rather than exam results ,my daughter was guaranteed a good result on at least 3 of the 4 subjects she was sitting and if she left she would basically be throwing it away and would my daughter be willing to stay on for the last few months.Now with her explaining this to me it seemed crazy to let my daughter leave and I tried to talk to her about it not force her btw just to try and see what she could potentially get.Well she had a meltdown got extremely upset started crying saying how it was pressure on her and her mental health and stormed out.She soon came back and I explained I just wanted to talk to her. So do I basically try and get her to go back for the short time to get the qualifications and make her realise that sometimes in life you need to do things you don't enjoy or let her leave earn the money until uni starts and keep her mental health in check?I have always tried to be a parent who doesn't force things on my children that they clearly do not want to do but with her growing up does she make her own decision on this?Thanks

*dd not dad obvs

Not true, employers don't care about your school qualifications if you have a degree unless you're maybe going for a very specific job but I can't think what.

I think that as jobs are becoming more scarce A level grades will be taken into account more than ever, especially if there are lots of candidates with the same degree. They will probably be sifted out before the interview stage.

I realised the OP was referring to the Scottish education system, but for those who think everyone should realise this, a lot of private schools in England often say 6th form instead of years 12 and 13.

@dementedpixie

I didn't mean they can only post in Scotsnet, sorry Just that they would understand the school system and unconditional offers

Fair point dementedpixie. I was looking at it from a "should I make my DD stay at school when it's affecting her mental health" point of view not a "she has an unconditional offer so it might not matter" one

It’s a pretty small price to pay to protect herself in case something happens to interfere with university. While it’s unlikely she won’t complete her studies, isn’t it better to have the best education possible on her record just in case she doesn’t?