If I keep my DC back a year at school, assuming this is even possible, am I making the right decision?
DC is 4 and has cerebral palsy, with sensory issues and other medical conditions.
We've worked so hard with them and they are a super star in their own right, they have come on so much. They are keeping up with their peers but only just. Mentally they are able to keep up fine but their gross and fine motor skills are, understandably, quite far behind their peers. The sensory issues also make things trickier for them. Add in to the fact they missed a lot of nursery due to lockdown and are now missing a lot of school due to more lockdowns would it be unreasonable to have them start reception again next year.
They have an EHCP and the school are aware of and very supportive of their additional needs, both physical and mentally.
Pros - they gets an extra year to catch up and they know a lot of the children who would be in the new reception class. Physically they would have an extra year to catch up in size, to catch up with motor skills and social skills.
Negatives - they will ask why they aren't
moving up a class when their current class do. Will they be marked out as different? Will they miss their current friends?
Has anyone ever done this for their child? How did it work out?
If you keep a child back a year now does that mean they will always be behind a year? It would seem silly to hold them back then be forced, at some point, to make them jump back into their "proper" year.
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Holding back DC a year in school. WWYD?
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Allreadytaken · 22/01/2021 19:10
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