I just got this email from Amazon, though not sure which Amazon sent it. I'm based in the EU (Ireland to be specific) and always have been, never used Amazon outside of the EU. I'm just curious, is this first point legal in the EU? Mandatory forced arbitrations (as opposed to going to court).
Hello,
I want to do Computer Science for my leaving cert 2027 (meaning I'm now in the summer between 5th and 6th year), the biggest issue is the 30% project, Section A&B and Section C can be done in my home school. My school doesn't offer it as a subject. I'd ideally like to keep up the 7 subjects I'm already doing in my home school. Meaning this would be an 8th (to serve as a buffer, I'm doing 1 OL subject so that one is already capped at 56 points)
So far, for all of 5th year I've been doing it through a grinds school that I won't name, it's fine, but I've paid ~€1.9k so far, and will have to spend at least another ~€2.2k by the end of 6th year, which is quite a bit for 1 subject (at least in the Leaving cert), which in my opinion is better saved for college or something better. Not only that but this grinds school is about 5h drive each way which I'll have to do for 12 weeks just for them to certify 30% of 1 subject in my leaving cert.
Does anyone know the rules regarding coursework in the leaving cert. What are the criteria to be allowed to certify a project? If I can drop PE, Career Guidance and Religion for just those 12 weeks, making 5×40 min a week, I'd get my 40 hours across 12 weeks. If I could find a teacher with a somewhat adjacent qualification in my school willing to just sit there and watch me to make sure I don't cheat and just do whatever work they normally do on their breaks, could they sign the P.2 form letting me get that up to 30%?
I understand if I did this I'd be pretty much on my own but I'm quite determined to do this subject, I would need to try study myself at home because I'd have no teacher guiding me through it.
If anyone knows if that's allowed or has done something similar in the past it'd be much appreciated, or if anyone knew a better way of going about it, I'm open to anything. My school knows about the grind school, but I'd need to ask my principal about any other path I take when I go back in September. I still haven't run any of this by the school yet.
I'm particularly referring to that checkbox that was unchecked by default. Especially [Recital 32](https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-32/)
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It doesn't ask you to opt into marketing, it says check the box if you do NOT want to receive marketing emails. So it's kinda opt-out rather than opt in, I feel like at the least this is a dark pattern. Most people expect an opt in box and would choose not to click it.