Reply to Repeating eighth grade for age/maturity not academics. Thoughts/advice needed

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Repeating eighth grade for age/maturity not academics. Thoughts/advice needed"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I have a oct birthday son and we did this, but for 6th grade- since we switched districts and schools then.  It was absolutely the right decision for us, given a somewhat unique circumstance.

In my son’s case, he skipped kindergarten and went right to first in a private school.  He has always been super bright and it made sense then and since the teachers said that was appropriate we just went with it. But we always told him, when he moved schools, he would be put into his appropriate grade for his age.  In the district we moved into, there was a highly accelerated program available to 7th and 8th graders- highly accelerated and tons of homework.  I knew he qualified with his scores and he needed to be in it, but I thought it would be better for him to be a little older and better with executive function before tackling it.  So he repeated 6th grade at his new school.  It was fine.  The cut off is Sept 1 so he is within normal age for the grade. He had other things to learn outside of academics that year (diverse school, Edtech, making new friends) and we heavily supplemented academic material at home to keep up his academics.

If your son is on board and it is a new school, I’d do it.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics