and those choices can come later in life too.
every one is sooo focused on yr 12, VCE/HSC all that jazz when reality is sometimes its not what the child needs. i was one of them. school plus me = kaboom.
i also found for me; as school was so book based i often couldnt wrap my head around it. yet at tafe (i did cookery) i loved it and the lowest i got was a pass; due to it being a bussiness subject which i held no intrest in; at all.