Guest guest Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 Hello all...Happy New Year. I am wondering if any of you would know about rules and regulations regarding grade retention. My niece has been out of school now for 2 months. She is in honors classes and is an honor roll student. She is dealing with this habit cough as well as extreme anxiety. Adding to her anxiety now is the fact that she thinks she will have to stay back. She hasn't been able to work with the tutor at all, so she is just missing everything. Once she gets better if she works with the tutor and maybe does summer school, will she still have to stay back??? She is in 8th grade and would be starting high school next year. Any thoughts would be appreciated. HERES A FUNNY ONE: My PDD daughter told my husband that she is a woman now. Well his eyes bug out of his head and he looks at me like, " uh is there something I should know " He asked her what makes her think that and she said, " well, I have boobs and a phone so that makes me a woman " . I guess it's as good an answer as any. Terri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2007 Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 If she works hard and is able to catch up, there is no reason she would have to stay back. I had a friend in high school who had brain surgery for epilepsy and was out for over 3 months. He was given the option to either work hard and do summer school and stay with his grade, or pretty much take the year off and repeat it. He was a lazy guy, so he repeated the grade, but he didn't HAVE to. If she is determined to make up the work, she should be able to. HOWEVER, if stress is contributing to the cough, it might be better for her to repeat the grade than panic over catching up. It depends on how much she ends up missing and how difficult school work is for her. I really hope she starts feeling better soon. Amnesty > > Hello all...Happy New Year. > > I am wondering if any of you would know about rules and regulations regarding grade retention. My niece has been out of school now for 2 months. She is in honors classes and is an honor roll student. She is dealing with this habit cough as well as extreme anxiety. Adding to her anxiety now is the fact that she thinks she will have to stay back. She hasn't been able to work with the tutor at all, so she is just missing everything. > > Once she gets better if she works with the tutor and maybe does summer school, will she still have to stay back??? She is in 8th grade and would be starting high school next year. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. > > HERES A FUNNY ONE: My PDD daughter told my husband that she is a woman now. Well his eyes bug out of his head and he looks at me like, " uh is there something I should know " He asked her what makes her think that and she said, " well, I have boobs and a phone so that makes me a woman " . I guess it's as good an answer as any. > > Terri > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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