Question about my American kid who went to school abroad for 2 years and is now returning to 9th grade in the US.

My family has been living abroad and working remotely in the US. Schools here are January to December, not September to June so he had to skip half a year to align with the school year when we moved here. He has done great and is in the first semester of 9th now. We are returning in June and he will re enter 9th in the US to re-align with American schools. We are hoping to leave here before the end of the school year because my wife has a new job opportunity in the US. School in the US will be out for the summer already. My question is: Will it hurt him to not have finished the year here, given that he will be repeating the first semester of 9th in the US anyway. My concern is that since he skipped a semester of 7th here, US schools will think of the first semester of 9th here (abroad) as the second semester of 8th there (the US ). If we stay the rest of the school year, which ends at the end of June, my son will be separated from his mother for an additional month. He also doesn't want to have to study for finals if he is redoing the semester in the US anyway.

Any input, wise ones?

Submitted March 04, 2024 at 09:16AM by silversmoke111 https://ift.tt/r9eVsPN