Have just returned from yr8 into 9 options with my youngest and feel the PE teacher didn't get the marketing memo. Well you get an extra PE lesson but the theory is quite hard is not a ringing endorsement.
My boys school let them pick 6 options in yr 9 in the hope they will be more engaged in lessons than if they continue doing subjects they have little interest in. At the moment youngest has picked Music, media studies, food tech, electronics, pre GCSE PE and introduction to business studies. His big brother is telling him these are wrong as he did different ones completely overlooking that whilst he is academic in a traditional sense his brother learns best from doing things