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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens when a child is held back a year?

Alas, data on kids of equally poor academic standing shows that retaining that student is WORSE than promoting forward.  And, of course, promoting forward without supports is WORSE than providing supports.

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No one provides enough supports.

If you retain kids once and they still don't learn, then you have to retain again and again.   No one has a plan for remediation, so it is better to just keep promoting and eventually hope the child will drop out of school.[/quote]

If you teach a child all year, and they don't keep up or learn what they should, does retaining them and teaching them the same stuff in the same way really help them?  What they most likely need as the teacher pointed out is individual remediation and different teaching methods.  My dd has ADHD and has been at the low end of reading and having a hard time keeping up with the class.  But retaining her won't help because she will still have ADHD next year.  Instead, we are doing summer school, tutoring over the summer, and we got her an individual tutor.  She would not only be even more bored and unfocused next year if she repeated, but she would also have a huge hit to her self esteem.  We may also medicate her next year.  She is a rising 3rd grader.[/quote]

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