Are there consequences to not attending GCSE exams (other than an ungraded mark)? My DS is in yr11 and about to start his exams. He has had ongoing issues at school and is on the SEN register. We asked at the beginning of the year to drop history as due to teacher clashes and his SEN he hadn't attended hardly any lessons in Y10. School refused dropping a subject as no specific diagnosis. He has attended some lessons (about 20%) due to a change in teacher this year but has still missed the majority. His SEN makes writing answers to exam questions very difficult (anything over a couple of sentences) - just gets overwhelming anxiety at getting the right answer and then doesn't write anything! We have all accepted that he won't pass, I would rather he didn't waste his time (and anxiety) attending 3 exams and used the time to prepare for the core ones that are also going to be a challenge- especially English as you can imagine.
Would he be disciplined in some way? Could we be fined? It is so frustrating as we have tried asking for him not to do it but school have been strangely insistent even though it won't look good on their stats. I am in a dilemma because if we now ask school again for him not to go we couldn't go with the sick option on the day.