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[quote=Anonymous]My son has a late September birthday and since he met the kindergarten cutoff for the district we were in we sent him to kindergarten when he was four. We thought he’d probably repeat kindergarten since he was so young but it ended up being fine. And it’s been fine every year until now. He doesn’t struggle academically but high school is a huge step up in academic demands ( I have an older child in high school and see how demanding it is). He has ADHD and already struggles with executive functioning, he’s young for his grade and he’s a boy — I just don’t feel good about sending him to high school next year. Our district might allow him to repeat eighth at another school or we could send him to a private school for eighth. He seems somewhat open to the idea but the data on grade retention isn’t positive.

What would you do?

One reason he’s somewhat into the idea is he thinks it might help him with his competitive sport in high school which is very important to him.[/quote]

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