Do you know anybody who has ever been held back a grade?

[agent817]

This thought occurred to me today. While I have never been held back, the only thing that has happened was that I had to retake a class that I failed, whether it was in summer school, in another grade, or in an extended day class. But having to repeat a grade has never happened to me. I know some people who have, though. There were various reasons to it, though, like a parent being dissatisfied with their child's academic performance that the parent wanted the child to go through the grade again. Another being that someone got in trouble towards the end of the year that the person had to repeat the grade. Hell, I knew one guy who was a senior when I was a junior, and was then told that he was going to do a fifth year to repeat his senior year, then the guy dropped out.

Did you know anybody who had to repeat a grade?

[Wilfred]

Yeah I was held back 2nd grade. Never really asked why either.

[tirtefaa]

I went an extra year after Kindergarten to something called Transition, while the majority of everyone else went on to 1st grade.

The reason for this wasn't anything due to grades, but more so because I struggled with focusing due to several factors, and I also had a terrible lisp, so holding me back allowed for them to work with me on it, which must have worked since I don't have any shred of a lisp anymore.

The unfortunate reality of the extra year was that I had a teacher who was physically abusive and almost daily I would get hit or slapped. I didn't report it since I was young and felt like I was supposed to trust teachers and certain officials, so by the time my parents found out about it, it was too late.

[Push R Truth]

I grew up in a small town that had a bunch of "crazy sports parents" that purposely held back a bunch of kids in kindergarten then again in 2nd grade (about 10 of them got held back twice) to make a super-grade. I'm talking our average grade size was 40-50ish and my grade ended up with 80.

Oh, and my grade totally sucked at sports in high school even though we by FAR had the most wacky sports parents and donations. Won a shit ton of music awards thou! *flex*


So I guess to answer the question: I knew a bunch of kids that got held back but there was so many of them that outside of age the difference was imperceptible. At least to school age me.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Kinda but not in a consequential since. I pretty much half-assed my sophomore year so wound up being grouped into one of those for my homeroom for what would've been my junior year... but I ended up making the difference on credits and being in a senior class and graduating the next year anyway so the only actual difference it made was where I went to in the mornings.

[unc40]

My father was held back but that was because my grandfather had him stay at home to work on the farm and he missed a bunch of school. One day my grandfather told my dad that he was done with school and wouldn't be going back so he could work here. My father did get his GED but he always regretted not graduating from high school.

I knew a girl in school who was one of the better students in here class but her parents held her back because her grades weren't good enough for them.

[twiggy101]

I knew several who were held back. In my case, I wasn't held back but I started kindergarten later because my parents thought I wasn't ready.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Never got held back,even skipped a grade. But had a buddy I grew up with who got held back a few times. He was a year older than me.He got held back in 1st grade. So the next few years we were in the same grade. Then he got held back again in 3rd grad.

By the time we hit high school he had been held back again. So by the time he graduated he turned 21 a few months before he graduated.

There was one dude,Tim,he was a senior when I started at the high school. He got held back. Next year he is a senior,gets held back again. So he finally graduated with my class.

[Big BosskMan]

I graduated high school with a girl who I swear was a junior, or senior, when I got there as a freshman.

[Ultimo Gallos]

I forgot my father got held back in 1st grade. He missed too much school cause he had bad lungs. Then later one in 10th grade he dropped out to join the Navy. He Got his GED right before I was born.

[aka Cthulhu]

Kinda. Me. My grades got so bad in third year high school that the school told my parents that I had to repeat third year if I was to keep studying in said school. Was just extremely apathetic at the time that I hardly ever bothered to submit any homework... amusingly the straw that broke the camel's back was my grades in Filipino, with me living there. Surprisingly math and English I kept high grades on despite never studying, but with Filipino my grades were that abysmal.

Instead of staying there, I asked my parents to transfer me to another school. They consented. Got into a much smaller school... like real small. Small as in the fourth year class was a single class. Big change in life, really. Went from an all-boys school to a co-ed. Among a number of things the new place allowed me to get out of my shell and actually socialize with others. Did better, got into one of the oldest colleges here... just in time for my medical problems to come knocking.

Passed by that small school a while ago. Sadly, the pandemic seems to have taken its toll on it. Place was demolished, and only the front gate and front walls to the school remained.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

My second grade crush Jennifer, to fade from my life forever

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

I knew a couple guys. Usually kids with serious behavioural issues as opposed to anything regarding intelligence.

Flip side my mom skipped grade 3

[jimmyjackezekiel]

I'm not sure if it was repeating a Grade, but I had to go to High School for an extra year because my job wasn't ready to take me in the summer after my senior year.

[saneiac]

There was a girl in my 1st grade class who had been held back a year, ie she was supposed to be in 2nd grade already. We didn't even know until about 2/3 through the school year when a 2nd grader brought in his class picture from the previous year and she was in it. At the end of the year, the school wanted to hold her back again and make her repeat 1st grade a third time. She transferred to a different school instead.

I actually met her again in my junior year of high school, when we both worked as dishwashers at the same restaurant. I never asked her about it directly, but I assume now that she was held back because of an undetected learning disability like dyslexia, because she wasn't stupid by any means, nor was she ever a troublemaker.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Grade 7 was the best 3 years of my life.

[fw91]

These days it's really hard to be held back. A lot of pressure from higher ups to just pass kids.

[ERON]

I skipped 1st grade along with two others in my class. All three of us ended up getting held back in 5th grade because someone decided we shouldn't move on to middle school ahead of our peers.

[Dr. T is an alien]

I knew a few including one guy who was held back a total of 3 times (he was a nice guy but clearly had a learning disability that took him years to learn how to deal with).

My youngest was a slightly different case as he opted to do online learning as he transitioned for a couple of reasons, though primarily he wished to avoid the classmates who were going to react negatively to him transitioning (though he was the tomboyest of tomboys before he came out to us in the first place, so he would have had less changes to make than others might). He wound up switching online schools a handful of times because the first couple were just not set up optimally for him to succeed. He would have graduated late because of all the school switches so he simply said "Smurf it! I'm smarter than most people my age anyways!" and simply got his GED a year earlier than kids his age normally graduated and got a head start on college instead.

[saneiac]

May 18, 2022 8:42:47 GMT -5 ERON said:

I skipped 1st grade along with two others in my class. All three of us ended up getting held back in 5th grade because someone decided we shouldn't move on to middle school ahead of our peers.

Am I right in assuming the reason you skipped 1st grade was because your reading level, or maybe just general education level, was ahead of your peers at that time? If so, what did you do your second time through 5th grade? Just sleep the entire year?