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Dropping Art GCSE?

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emMo13 · 01/01/2019 18:38

DD wants to drop art GCSE because she feels the workload is too high and she doesn’t have enough time to revise for other subjects. DD is a procrastinator but has recently started to get down to it and has now realised she’s started too late. I have been telling her she needs to get her finger out for since half way through year 10, but to no avail. Maybe it’s my shoddy parenting. Regardless, I’m willing to accommodate her wishes because I don’t think that not letting her drop it out of spite is going to achieve anything at this point. I’m 100% sure that if DD replaced the time she was spending doing art, she’d do incredibly well at the rest of her subjects (she has 10 others, and did RE last year), since she spends days on it and nothing else. Yes - it’s a time management thing when it comes to art (I’ve been blasted about that before) but she insists that if she had to do it to a passable quality she’d still spend a significant amount of time on it and there’s no point spending that time just to get a 4 or a 5. Thoughts? Has anyone ever dropped art so late?

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sendsummer · 08/01/2019 07:31

MaisyPops good to see that you are further extending your list of ‘flexiblility’ during the course of this thread. It is a start.

The OP raised this as an issue a while ago about dropping a subject. There was lots of advice given about how to move forward. Taking the new thread at face value then there doesn't seem to be any indication that earlier advice was acted on
You have to be careful that being disgruntled at a DC not enacting advice (due to lack of maturity or other more worrying reasons) does not result in the attitude of ‘they deserve to stew’.

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