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[quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have knowledge or experience of holding back a new student in MoCo? My family is helping a Ukrainian refugee family resettle in the area, and they want to enroll their boys - aged 13 and 14 - in 8th grade together. The international office for Moco public schools is saying that the 14 year old must start high school even though 
1. His last year was extremely fragmented; he was living in several different European countries taking classes over Zoom. 
2. He was born August 15 and has missed the cutoff by a matter of days. 
3. He is physically (and perhaps a tad socially) immature. 
4. It would be much less traumatic for him and his brother to be in school together. 
I was under the impression that parents have some say in whether they choose to hold back their children. Apparently there’s a new policy because of COVID, but surely an exception can be made, especially given everything this family has been through? We’re trying to get these boys in school as quickly as possible, and we’re hearing that an appeal is not guaranteed and will hold up both boys’ enrollment. *Side note, they’re huge basketball fanatics and are desperate to try out for the basketball team. We reached out to the school’s Athletic Director last week, and he said that they must be enrolled by December 5 in order to try out. He said no exception can be made. With the holiday and Monday’s closure, we’re already backed up a few days). 
Any suggestions would be so appreciated.[/quote]

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