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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 568158" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>Assuming this is regarding difficult child, at 11 there is a greater risk of harm than good with retaining a child. You may want to go meet with your high school's special education director. At least in our area, because the high school is so much bigger and better funded, there are many more options. Plus he can always stay and extra couple years in high school (many of our schools now have 'transition' programs located at a seperate campus: kids who NEED extra years in high school but would be devestated to not be allowed to graduate, they are allowed to walk the stage, participate in all of the senior activities and then they start attending the transition program and they can stay in that program until they turn 22, ours enrolls them in 1-2 classes at the local college (either for credit or an audit -- one boy is taking piano) so that they can say they go to JUCO and feel 'normal' but still get all the support of the high school district. </p><p></p><p>I retained both Eeyore and Piglet after 1st grade and it was the right decision for both of them. Piglet is now in the college prep track, has lots of friends and is pretty typical. Eeyore is still one of the most immature kids in his class so I am glad I did because between how tiny he is and how immature, I think he would drown with kids in the grade he should have been.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 568158, member: 1169"] Assuming this is regarding difficult child, at 11 there is a greater risk of harm than good with retaining a child. You may want to go meet with your high school's special education director. At least in our area, because the high school is so much bigger and better funded, there are many more options. Plus he can always stay and extra couple years in high school (many of our schools now have 'transition' programs located at a seperate campus: kids who NEED extra years in high school but would be devestated to not be allowed to graduate, they are allowed to walk the stage, participate in all of the senior activities and then they start attending the transition program and they can stay in that program until they turn 22, ours enrolls them in 1-2 classes at the local college (either for credit or an audit -- one boy is taking piano) so that they can say they go to JUCO and feel 'normal' but still get all the support of the high school district. I retained both Eeyore and Piglet after 1st grade and it was the right decision for both of them. Piglet is now in the college prep track, has lots of friends and is pretty typical. Eeyore is still one of the most immature kids in his class so I am glad I did because between how tiny he is and how immature, I think he would drown with kids in the grade he should have been. [/QUOTE]
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