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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When we asked our child (girl) with ADHD about holding her back she freaked.  [b]Make sure they are on board with this holding back decision. [/b] She had a good reason: school is not really her ‘thing’ and she didn’t want to prolong it.[/quote]

+1 At this age, it should be a joint decision. My nephew recently repeated 10th grade when moving to a new school system because his first try was an awful experience with covid online school. He was totally on board with it and had a great re-do year. My sister had concerns about him for a while (he has anxiety) and suggested a grade repeat earlier but he was adamantly against it at that time.

That said, my DD has inattentive ADHD and I think definitely benefitted from being old-for-grade with an Oct. birthday. For one thing, she was a late reader, didn't really click until 7 yrs old, which fortunately was early 1st grade. If she hadn't gotten the hang of reading until 2nd grade we'd all have been a lot more worried. Good experience socially and has had the same two BFFs since 2nd grade. We actually didn't get the ADHD diagnosis until HS when the academic demands outpaced her ability to cope.[/quote]

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