Should Photography be an A'Level subject in the first place?

When I took A'levels (in Germany, obviously), we had to take either German or a foreign language (okay, I opted for English, I know, I know ...), Maths or a science (I went for Maths) and the other two subjects we could choose at free will ... (and I ended up with Economics and Spanish).

But back to the main question, a manual film camera like the Pentax K1000 or MX should suffice.