The Wrightslaw Way

I went to the school to ask if my son will be promoted to the 6th grade.  They say I must wait till the last day of school to know.  The school will not tell me any thing. They are very rude to me. What should I do? How closely have you monitored your son’s […]

Social promotion  never works for anyone.  But is retention always harmful?  If the school is going to give the child extra services which were never given before, wouldn’t retention may be a good idea? We get hundreds of emails about retention every year. I don’t recall one in which the school proposed to provide more […]