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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:53 PM

DR. DOBSON: Holding your child back a grade may not aid improvement

By DR. JAMES DOBSON, Focus On The Family

QUESTION: Is retention in the same grade ever advisable for a child who is not a late bloomer? How about the slow learner?

DR. DOBSON: There are some students who can profit from a second year at the same grade level and many who will not. The best guideline is this: Retain only the child for whom something will be different next year. A youngster who is sick for seven months in an academic year might profit from another run-through when he or she is healthy. And, as I’ve indicated, a late-developing child should be held back in kindergarten (or the first grade at the latest) to place him or her with youngsters of comparable development. For the slow learner, however — the child who has below-average ability — a second journey through the same grade will not help. If he was failing the fourth grade in June, he will continue to fail the fourth grade in September. The findings from research on this issue are crystal clear.

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