I felt awful dropping Modern History, I came first by like ten marks, then had no choice but to drop it as there was no way i was doing my HSC with 14 units, 12 is bad enough. My Modern teacher, who's also my English teacher spent all of term four dropping hints about how I shouldn't have...
My parents have the attitude that it's my life, my choice. I'm still amazed they manage to remember what subjects I take, though dates such as my Year Eleven yearlies etc are always forgotten. plus my Brother got a sucky UAI considering his intelligence then managed to fail every subject at Uni...