Grade Retention is when you hold a student back for not meeting the standards for moving on to the next grade. Opinions regarding grade retention in the past 30 having varied from being good for students and students doing poorly because of getting held back. At least 3.2 Million children are held back a year, costing almost 19 billion dollars (Aldridge and Goodman).
People think that if you retain your child why their young it wont be harmful, but in fact it affects the children in the long run, and they won’t approve academically overtime. Children who are retained feel more poorly about themselves as if they weren’t good enough as the rest of their peers. This can also force them to give up or loose hope that they won’t ever be good enough as the rest of the kids their age. Children who are held back have a higher risk of having discipline problems along with psychological problems. Also, children have a higher risk of dropping out of school if they are retained feeling like they are not smart enough to graduate.
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