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[quote=Anonymous]I think it depends on the school. Some schools seem to be more aggressive about this than others. At ours, which has four K classes, we've heard 1-2 get "held back" each year. In the cases I know about they were advised by the school to go private for a year to repeat K and then return in 1st. Of course it's a public school so they do have the option to repeat K there but I think most parents seem to have the resources to do private for a year and think it'll make the adjustment easier for the child.

I don't know the children who were in this situation well but it's my understanding that they were behind in terms of behavior/social issues as well as academics.

The case I'm most familiar with because I know the parents is a boy with a late summer birthday(July or August). He's a wonderful, bright kid and I think he just met the county benchmark for reading in K at the end of the school year so he wasn't technically behind but he was very behind as compared to his classmates but I think the main reason he repeated K was because he's very active and had a hard time sitting still and doing his work. We're at a W cluster elementary.

BUT I can't imagine they would hold back a child who can read. [/quote]

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