Thank you so much Dottie for sharing! After spending a weekend with kids on my son's baseball team for an allstar tournament that are his age (and going into 5th grade where we're considering having him repeat)...my husband and I really watched and listened to their interactions. We found our son is much more mature in many ways...he is the tallest kid on the team and about the 5th oldest (out of 12 kids). So, we are thinking we need to leave him where he is. We have talked with him about all of his options, and he was okay with repeating 5th to be with his same-aged peers, but didn't want to do it at a different school...we feel it would be so much more difficult to do it at the same school he was just at...not only due to kids but teachers as well. It is a smaller gradeschool. We have let him know we will support him in whatever choice he makes. he's such an easy going kid, he'll do whatever we ask of him, especially if he feels we feel it's best, but we have let him know it is completely his choice. He is kind of torn, but is thinking about it. Thanks again!
