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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If schools intensively intervened in first, second grades, and third grades instead of waiting for kids to fail and not learn how to read it wouldn’t cost that much compared to all the money didn’t in literacy coaches and equity coaches and programs. The most equitable thing schools can do is to teach kids to read well. [/quote]

OMG this is so freaking true.

However, it is also true that school administrators make it nearly impossible to retain a student in Kindergarten.

I have a student right now who absolutely definitely positively should not move on to first grade.  They simply are not developmentally ready.  No amount of reading intervention is able to help (and I am very successful with reading intervention).  They are VERY young -- birthday right on the cut off.  But I cannot get permission to retain the child, as "research shows" retention seldom is beneficial and indeed can be harmful.  I'm so frustrated.[/quote]

We have two kindergarteners like this. One parent will refuse retention and the other student is one of the oldest in the class so retention won't be allowed. I have had students who have been retained who have gone on to do so well. If the IEP process didn't take so damn long, we'd be able to help these students a lot earlier.[/quote]

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