School: Infant, First Response

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Anyone Have Experience with Having a Child Repeat 1St Grade?

My son has an August birthday and just barely made the cut-off to enter kindergarten last year. He seemed ready so we sent him, knowing he was going to be the youngest in his class, and ready to repeat kindergarten if need be. He did great, and when we requested an extra meeting with his kindergarten teacher towards the end of the school year to make sure he was ready for first grade, she said she had no concerns whatsoever. We are now half way through first grade, and his teacher has asked us to consider having him repeat this year....

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Middle School Is Killing Me!!!

My son (11) has never liked school, now that he has moved to the middle school things seemed to be going a lot better. He was doing his homework and turning it all in. Which I can see on their website on a daily basis. The problem is that he is slacking off again and in our parent/teacher conference last night with the core teachers they told me they are having a lot of trouble keeping him on task. They all said he is very polite and attentive, but when it's time to do the paperwork he zones out and won't do the work. They said he is a...