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[quote=Anonymous]Why exactly do you want her to repeat? Is it for the social aspect (because she is "not there" with her peers and is being shunned) or is it because she is failing in LA? Does she read proficiently? How is her writing?

If it is the 1st, I would keep her in the second grade and have a neuro eval + therapy this year - intense therapy so she can catch up. That said, I don't see anything wrong of deciding to hold her back - what is there to lose? If she had been in public since the beginning, she would be going to second grade now anyway.

If it is the second, I would definitely hold her back now and work on her language skills (eval + therapy) AND on reading/writing. Third grade is much harder as pp mentioned as kids are expected to be able to read well.

In a sense, you are lucky that with Covid, you are in the position of holding her back and have not social impact for her due to distance learning. If the school refuses, just take her off school to homeschool and homeschool the 2nd grade curriculum, at least officially. Next year, you enroll her in 3rd grade (or, if by then she has caught up significantly, you can decide to enroll her on 4th grade). It gives you more freedom of choice and to really look into your child's needs.

My would be rising 1st grader will be repeating K.[/quote]

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