Advice on how to respectfully challenge a Scottish school’s decision to make my daughter repeat her first year of school

My child goes to school in Scotland. As far as I was aware everything was fine. She’s quiet and studious, very much enjoys school. Nothing was highlighted in any school reports about any attainment concerns, homework was always done on time (such as it is for a 5 year old), she was doing her reading, writing all seemed good and I thought everything was fine. On Friday her teacher told me they would be keeping her back a year along with another kid. This was a rushed conversation in the school playground in earshot of other parents. I have asked for a meeting to discuss. What can I do to prep for this? Are there any data requests or standard expectations of how the school should have kept us informed and engaged with us over the last school year prior to this bombshell? Are they even allowed to do this? I’m stressed and upset as you can imagine and trying to calmly assess what’s going on before the meeting .

Submitted May 29, 2023 at 09:46AM by weejiemcweejer https://ift.tt/x9PGEpA