Sometimes students have a tough time understanding the lesson. Due to frequent absences, new school, different cultural, bulling, language barrier, and when teachers and other students isolate them from the subject. It is important to notice the problem when it begins and there is still a chance that there could be something done about it. Even though retaining a child could be a good and bad outcome in a way if they are being held back, students might or might not gain the knowledge they might have learned the first time that it was taught to them. Retaining a student causes them to lower their self-esteem, humiliation, and embarrassment, and maybe even to become drop outs. “Kids who will be taught the same skill in the same way without any different support in school typically do not benefit from repeating a grade level”. Every child has their own way of learning knowledge and skills other students may learn a lot quicker than …show more content…
Is it necessary for the child to be held back to advance? For example, a student with slow learning disabilities gets tested with (504) which is a program for students who need additional help. If the child will continue to get help on the side I do not see the point of holding the students back from being promoted with their classmates. For those regular students that are not in any kind of program, but still struggle in class, there are other ways to help them attend after school programs, or summer school, for example. If the goal is for third graders to show signs of being able to read certain amount of words, multiply, and be fluent in reading teachers should work with kids before they get to third grade level and not when the students are already in third struggling. Teachers should be able to pick up on kids who are not on-task, who are on-task, is the student learning, their behavior, be able to engage with each student throughout the lesson plan. Not all ideas are similar between the book and the teachers I interviewed; there are many differences. When having a class, it is a teacher’s duty to do anything in their power to help improve the student’s ability to inquiry skills. With technology there are certain tools, techniques, and online programs to help improve the child’s weakest subject. The big picture here is to have good communication with the child, parent, and teacher, so they are