My child is one of the youngest in his first grade class at 6 years old. He also has an IEP. He is probably the furthest behind out of all of the children in his class, but not so far behind that he is unteachable / a complete failure.
He is not severely disabled or anything and is about a 8 months to a year behind when it comes to speech and his some portions of his classwork. Once he understands a concept he takes to it and can apply it without too much trouble.. he's just a little bit slow in some areas.
We asked his teacher to hold him back a year. She agreed that it would be a good idea in this case. She brought it up with the school admin and they responded saying they typically do not hold back IEP students and that all IEP students get pushed forward to the next grade automatically, even if they don't meet the normal classes criteria to advance. They're asking us to come in and discuss our inquiry.
I firmly believe that if he repeats first grade he will be much more successful in the coming years. I also believe it makes more sense to hold him back now than to push him through and have him fail / repeat a grade once he's "caught up" in a few years when he will have more solid friendships and things.
I'm doing some googling on my own but would greatly appreciate any ammunition I can bring to the meeting with the school staff in the way of reports or statistics. I'm looking specifically for things relating to age and how well students do, stats on holding a child back, or anything that anybody thinks would help.
Thank you in advance!
Submitted April 01, 2019 at 02:02PM by Seldain https://ift.tt/2IbuE7x
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