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Retention In The Second Grade Essay

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Retention In The Second Grade Struggling through school has been something I have gone through with my daughter for going on three years. Madison is in the second grade now. I have sat with her daily helping her homework, while she cries. I contacted the school and the doctors to have her tested for a learning disability. Thankfully she doesn’t have a learning disability, however she was diagnosed with AAD/ADHD. With her diagnosis I was able to get Madison into the IEP program (individual education plan) at school. Madison is showing great improvements, but she is not where she needs to be. What would be the advantages and disadvantages to holding her back a year in school? There are several disadvantages to having a child held back. In 2003 the National Association of School Psychologists reported outcomes of …show more content…

I don’t think that there is any parent that doesn’t want the best for their child, and sometimes you really don’t know if the decision you made is the best possible choice to make. I certainly don’t want to see my child struggle in life. After weighing my options and the affects to each decision I believe that holding Madison back in the second grade will do more harm to her than good. Children with ADD/ADHD are already prone to having behavior problems, I think holding her back could enhance behavior issues. Madison also already shows self-esteem issues and I feel that holding her back while all of her friends go on to the third grade could increase the self-esteem problems that she already has. She may continue to struggle, but with the IEP I hope to see continued progress in her schoolwork. I know that the IEP can be changed based on the goals of the grade that she is in. I am not certain that this is the right choice to make, but with the research that I have done, I think it is. I hope that for Madison’s sake it

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