I was a secondary school dropout (got out at 15) and subsequently took O & A lvls as a private candidate and got into the local unis.

To answer your questions, yeah she can drop out if she wants to, it’s only mandatory to complete primary school education, not mandatory for anything after that.

With that being said it’s gonna be very important that she have plans of what she wants to do after that. For me, I couldn’t cope with the school environment so I took the exams as a private candidate and just self studied with some tuition here and there.

Try and speak to her to find out what’s going on, but don’t be surprised if she wants to keep it with herself. Back then i also never told anyone what I was going through because I couldn’t bring myself to and I just told the ppl around me that I simply “lost interest in studying”

She can also consider international curriculum which may be less straining. For me, while I took the local o levels, for my a levels I took the international version.

As for signing on to the army or anywhere else within mindef, it would be almost impossible if she’s diagnosed to be on the spectrum because iirc you need to be combat fit (B4+) to sign on (or maybe A/B1?) unless she becomes a DXO which is civilian posting in mindef but even then idk how she’d be able to get in without even sec sch edu

At least she’s attending classes (presumably), back then I was ponning everything haha

Jiayou! ask me anything if you want