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[quote=Anonymous]DS is in 2nd grade and has an august birthday. He’s currently the youngest in the class and turns 8 in August (ie-we didn’t redshirt and sent him on time).

We are moving overseas this summer and will be enrolling him in an international school that follows the British system.

I’m wondering if we should ask the school to let him repeat the equivalent of 2nd grade.

DS has done well in school, but not amazingly. He’s a little behind on reading, but he’s been in a full immersion school since kindergarten and reading is tested in the 2nd language, not English.

He seems to do ok socially but doesn’t have any close friends from school. I don’t know if that’s because he’s younger or if he just hasn’t found his right group yet.

The beauty of all this is with it being a new school and a separate system, I think DS wont realize he’s repeating a grade since I think they have different terminology at the British school.

My motivation is to give him a leg up, and also have an extra year with him at home. As it stands, he will be graduating high school at 17 and leaving for college before he turns 18.

Would you do this?

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