My DD is 17 and in her first year of A Levels.
Her school shut its sixth form so she opted to go to a college with the majority of her peer group. It’s a 40 min bus ride on the college bus or about 1hr20 on public transport (just a very awkward route).
She opted to do 3 A Levels and Welsh Bacc is compulsory. She dropped one of her A Levels against my advice because she felt it was too much.
Today she’s said she wants to drop out of college, work full time and restart her A Levels at the nearest sixth form (not where she completed her GCSEs).
She’s finding the lack of structure in college difficult, has endless hours in between lessons (3hrs or so) and because of the distance it is from home, she’s just hanging around a lot, which I would find soul destroying too. Because of this she’s skipped some lessons, especially when she’ll be going in for one hour but out of the house from 8-5pm for it. She’s just had an E in one of her mocks but is predicted to do well otherwise. She wish she’d dropped this particular A Level (law) and not the one that she did (psychology) so she feels she needs a do-over.
I’d appreciate some advice - I’m just so fearful she’ll end up enjoying the money of working FT that she won’t return to do her A Levels and will be stuck in min wage jobs when she’s capable of so much more.
FWIW, I tried to encourage her to go to the local sixth form - because I knew she’d have lots of free periods but she said no as did a couple of years there in years 7 and 8 and experienced bullying so moved elsewhere. Neither of us are worried about that now, she’s far more confident than she was back then.