A different kind of day - rendez-vous no 1

Today I meet up with Gwilym's form teacher to discuss what options are open for him. He does pretty well in most of his subjects (like 65% in Technology), of course he does very well in English but he's really struggling in French and Maths. Yes, I don't understand, either.

Is the best thing for him to :

1) scrape through the year and carry on regardless - as in previous years
2) redo the year concentrating hard on his French and Maths to try and get them sorted out 
3) switch to a school with a more technical / practical bias, like some friends at church have done
4) something else I haven't thought of or don't know about

I am keen for him to keep his options as open as possible as long as possible. At present he doesn't know what he wants to do after school - he started the year thinking of professional football, then switched to paediatrics, then to car mechanic. That's right. He doesn't know.

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Anonymous said…
Is it possible to get a tutor in those subjects?
8:16 pm
Alan said…
Yes - though finding a tutor is not as easy as it appears.

We have a couple of leads now and I hope that we'll have someone sorted soon.
9:28 pm
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