School being difficult about language choices for my daughter

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Does anyone have experience or advice regarding how to get a school to allow your child to take the language choices we would like them to make? Ds is Italian and my daughter already studying this out of school doing gcse early. School asked and we responded about any pre gcse language choices although they don't guarantee them. We wrote in in good time and requested Spanish as good chance daughter is going to do languages going forwards and it's a good match to the Italian. School have responded saying we have no choice and she is down to do German. It's totally random and we do not get to choose!

This doesn't make sense to us and school will not meet us and say their decision is binding.

What rights do we have - is there a duty of care for the school to take our daughters future language ambitions into account?

Any experience on this / helpful info gratefully received. Thank u

bubbles
I'm not claiming to be an MFL expert.
I only did 2 languages at KS3 and 1 to KS4. I was going to take it to A level but my options didn't fit so my other subject 'won' because I liked the college. I didn't go complaining that the option blocks meant picking between my best subject and a language i enjoy.

I have shared my friend's experiences doing MFL degrees. One spent 2 terms of their year abroad studying in the language they started at university. They did 3 languages in their degree and only studied one of them at GCSE and A Level.
Another did joint honours but only had one of his languages to A level (French - done without GCSE & accepted off the back of his gcse in another language)

I'm pointing out the reality of timetabling not what it should be like in an ideal world. In an ideal world every child would be able to any combination of subjects they want.
But the reality of timetabling and large organisations is that sometimes you don't get what you want.