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[quote=Anonymous]I wonder if part of the problem is that they don’t hold kids back anymore.  I’m an adult psychiatrist, but I lived in a small town for a while and I saw the kids there too because there wasn’t anyone else there to see them.  
Parents would bring kids in because they were having difficulty in school, and I would evaluate the child and talk to their parents and teachers, and a lot of kids didn’t have mental illness.  They just weren’t able to keep up academically and just needed another year of second grade or whatever.  
But the school didn’t have the funding to keep a kid an additional year.  What they would get extra funding for is if the kid was on an IEP.  So, we would give a diagnosis that most fit, get the kid extra support in the classroom, and the child would be moved up to the next grade level.  
What was really crazy was that these kids were often starting school younger than their peers because their parents needed the childcare.  So you might have a new seven year old who really needs another year of first grade being pushed into second grade with kids who are a year older.

I don’t know.  This all seems so stupid to me.  If you have a fourth grader who cannot read at a basic level, they should do fourth grade again.  They should not become a fifth grader who cannot read at a basic level!

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