Fox3 is it really fair though to make kids continue with a language if there time was spent with more productive subjects which will give them better grades than just scraping a pass at that level.
I too dumped my language at age 14 point in Scotland after 2 miserable years abusing French. I did however get top grades in sciences and maths which allowed me to do a degree in Engineering. Oh and I took woodwork instead of French which I have used through out my life to this day.