In DD's sixth form, they do 4 AS levels for a year, then after the exams they drop the weakest one and continue on to complete 3 A levels.
DD absolutely loathes one of her courses (as do the other students on the course). She has no interest in it and knows she is pretty likely to fail the exam. It's supposed to have a high level of discussion and debate, but with only 3 of them in the class it's a bit hard to do. In her defense, it's a subject that's not offered below AS level so although the course sounded interesting, she had no idea what it actually entailed until she began it.
She has already had one meeting with the subjects adviser at her college, explaining she wanted to drop the course now and concentrate on her other 3 subjects. She was persuaded to continue, the adviser said she would speak to the teacher about DD's concerns and that it looks better on CVs to have more subjects. Things haven't improved.
It's at the point where DD is really down on the mornings where she has this subject. She dreads the lessons, she's fallen behind, and the teacher has a go at her because she's not pulling her weight.
DD has asked me to intervene and speak to the adviser.
I'm going to get DD to drop a note off asking the adviser to give me a call when convenient. I really don't see the point of putting DD through another five months of a course which she's most definitely not going to pass. She could much more productively spend the time on homework and revision for her other three subjects.
Am I missing something here? Is there a good reason why she should finish the course? (honest question - it's a very long time since I did A-levels and everything's changed in the past xx years!)