DS2 is choosing his standard grade options, and for his modern language he wants to do German rather than French.
He's only done German in S2, whereas he's been doing French since P5 (ie 5 years).
In my day (blah blah blah), you could only do German if you did French too.
I somehow don't feel German is as useful as French, (MrsMuddle dons tin hat, and prepares for onslaught!) especially as we go to France for holidays a lot.
He's made his decision, and I respect that, but I'd welcome opinions from modern language teachers..