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[quote=Anonymous]One more thing - I'm pp - while our kid is not disabled or anything, he has speech articulation issues for which he receives speech therapy.  He's now tested out of it but it's still not 100% (I think he was tested last at 93% but since academically they say it's not holding him back, he stops therapy) and he's on the short/average height for his age (appx 30% height).  That being said, a lot of why we ultimately held him back is that I can tell you maturity wise DD at age 6 to me is older than him at age 8 (August birthday).  His maturity level is like zero (ok maybe age 6-7) - he has no focus and I will likely have him tested for ADHD next year.

For us, like I said you can't see anything glaring in him needing to be held back except as his parents knowing what we know about him, it seems like it's right to do.  He's academically on grade 2/3 but we also do a lot of extra work with him in reading/math to keep him there.  We did not take the perspective of red shirting to give him any edge on academics - we struggled and it was and is always hell knowing there's never the right answer for him - we did it because a lot of signs point to us likely having to red shirt at some point and because he really felt he wanted to repeat first grade, we chose to do it now.

You just never know why families do what they do and surely there are those who do it for the wrong reasons but please don't be so quick to judge![/quote]

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