Schools preventing students to drop? (1 Viewer)

[Mdzabakly]

My freind goes 2 a school were they are not allowing them to drop any subject until next year.
the reason is something on the lines of " in past years people just bludged blablaablabla"
are schools allowed to do this?
i always though that once you got into yr 12 you had the right to drop a subject ...

 

[Riproot]

Yeah, pretty sure they aren't allowed to do that.

 

[SophxMusic]

It may not seem right, but even at our school we can't drop till like week 4 because of the paperwork... I'd say it is so that people don't rush to drop to 10 units then regret it later, by making them stay a term it might change people's minds.
Maybe not the best thing to do, but I don't think that there's a rule saying they have to let you drop this year... If they were stopping you dropping next year, well, that's a different story...

 

[Mdzabakly]

bump anyone else no more about this?

 

[SophxMusic]

Just an update, today our school said to us that it is strongly recommended that we keep 12 units until the half yearlies.... Only certain people (I.e. me, with a fairly big workload) are allowed to drop now

 

[petermeetswendy]

I know about end of week three or four of term 4 we were allowed to drop right there and then. I kinda wished that we kept it till half yearlies then dropped cause I kinda regretted dropping Modern.

 

[enak101]

We were told today that we had to wait to week 5 to drop a subject since they had to interview all the kids who were unsatisfactory with different subjects. (terrible school lol)