School refusal - do you hold back a grade? Looking for experiences

[Anonymous]

If you have a high schooler did you hold back a grade if it went on too long or did you do summer school?

[Anonymous]

Mine was placed in ESESES and they caught him up without summer school or holding back.

[Anonymous]

need more specifics

[Anonymous]

If they will give the credits, take them and move forward. You may have to repeat math.

[Anonymous]

In MCPS they don't hold you back, you just need a certain number of credits to graduate. You can make up for some later, or take summer school, but you move on to the next grade.

[Anonymous]

Our kid in FCPS got in-home tutoring. Not was awful, but enabled them to pass. (Next year we moved them to private, which was a game changer.)

[Anonymous]

Can you do tutoring, therapy, meds?

[Anonymous]

In DC, your grade corresponds to the English class you're in. So if your child didn't attend enough to earn an English credit, they'll be classified as repeating. But there are all sorts of credit recovery programs designed to avoid that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our kid in FCPS got in-home tutoring. Not was awful, but enabled them to pass. (Next year we moved them to private, which was a game changer.)

Our situation was in FCPS and we worked closely with the counselor and teachers while we got a handle on the mental health issues. Those needed to be addressed first before anything else. Eventually we moved to private too.