{"id":8939,"date":"2013-03-07T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=8939"},"modified":"2019-04-03T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T18:21:08","slug":"retention-is-not-a-form-of-specialized-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/retention-is-not-a-form-of-specialized-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Retention is Not a Form of &#8220;Specialized Instruction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Retention%20is%20Not%20a%20Form%20of%20%22Specialized%20Instruction%22\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>The school wanted to retain my son who has an IEP for OT, PT and Speech. They insisted he repeat second grade. I disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>Now in third grade, his teachers want to send him back to second grade. They say his writing is not on par with a &#8220;normal&#8221; third grader&#8217;s writing.<\/p>\n<p>He grasps all concepts of the curriculum, but has a cognitive processing issue.\u00a0 He has difficulty understanding directions and the details of assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Should I let the school retain him?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23422 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/boy.stressed.redhead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/boy.stressed.redhead.jpg 849w, https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/boy.stressed.redhead-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/boy.stressed.redhead-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/>Specialized instruction, provided through an individualized education program (IEP), should be meeting your son&#8217;s unique needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Retention is not a form a specialized instruction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Didn&#8217;t Work the First Time<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since his instruction in second grade the first time through did not meet his needs, it does not seem logical to repeat that again. Doing what did not work the first time makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting his needs through the IEP would be the logical approach.<\/p>\n<p>The IEP can provide<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>year round school<\/li>\n<li>a longer school day<\/li>\n<li>as much individual teaching and related services as it takes to meet his needs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My suggestion is that you read all of these discussions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/retain.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">retention<\/span><\/span><\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/retain.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/retain.index.htm<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, hire an experienced advocate in your area to work with you to get an IEP that meets your son\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p>To find the experienced advocate, call the special education attorneys in your state who represent parents in due process hearings and ask them who they recommend as an advocate.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to look further, these directories should help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowpagesforkids.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/www.yellowpagesforkids.com\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.copaa.org\/search\/custom.asp?id=1489\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/www.copaa.org\/search\/custom.asp?id=1489<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education-a-must.com\/advocates.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/www.education-a-must.com\/advocates.html<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school wanted to retain my son who has an IEP for OT, PT and Speech. They insisted he repeat second grade. I disagreed. Now in third grade, his teachers <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/retention-is-not-a-form-of-specialized-instruction\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":23422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1275],"tags":[71,1299,106],"class_list":["post-8939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retention","tag-iep-goals","tag-ieps","tag-retention"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24178,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions\/24178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}