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Diamars 6 september 2022
More kids are repeating a grade
Is it good for them?
Hierbij maken wij het overlijden bekend van:
Abraham Th. Koole
“Bram”
*19-07-1951 - †02-09-2022
Afscheids ceremonie zal later bekend worden
(AP) — As Braylon Price of retained students in the state students in Chicago and Balti-
remembers it, he struggled jumped by about 20,000, to over more.
with pretty much everything 45,000 students.
the first full school year of “Kids see it as punishment,”
the pandemic. With mini- Braylon’s mother has no regrets Reynolds said. “It reduces their
mal guidance and frequent about taking advantage of the academic motivation, and it
disruptions, he had trouble new law. doesn’t increase their instruc-
staying on top of assignments tional advancement.”
and finishing homework on “Best decision we could have
time. made for him,” said Kristi Price, But backers of retention say
who lives in Bellefonte, in cen- none of the research was con-
It was so rocky his parents asked tral Pennsylvania. ducted in a pandemic, when
John 14: 1-3 for him to repeat sixth grade — a many children wrestled with
Don’t let your heart be troubled. Trust in decision they credit with getting While the family’s two daugh- Zoom lessons and some stopped
God, and trust also in me. There is more him on a better track. ters managed to keep up with logging in entirely.
than enough room in my father’s home. If school despite limited super-
this were not so, would I have told you that “At first I didn’t really want to do vision, Braylon struggled. He “So many children have strug-
I am going to prepare a place for you? When it,” said Braylon, now 13. “But went back to in-person school gled and have had a lot of prob-
everything is ready, I will come and get you, then later in the year I thought for the first full academic year of lems,” said Florida state Sen.
so that you will always be with me where I it would probably be better for the pandemic but it was “wishy- Lori Berman, a Delray Beach
am. me if I did.” washy,” his mother said. Stu- Democrat. Berman authored a
dents were quarantined on and law aimed at making it easier for
With deep sympathy we announce the passing The number of students held off, and teachers tried to keep up parents to ask for kindergarten
away of: back for a year of school has with students learning at home, to fifth graders to repeat a grade
surged around the country. Tra- online and in hybrid models. in the 2021-22 school year. “I
ditionally, experts have said re- That winter, Braylon suffered don’t think there is any stigma
peating a grade can hurt kids so- a spinal cord injury from wres- to holding your child back at this
cial lives and academic futures. tling that forced him to go back point.”
But many parents, empowered to remote learning.
by new pandemic-era laws, have Generally, parents can ask for
asked for do-overs to help their On his repeat of sixth grade, children to be held back, but the
children recover from the tu- Braylon had an individualized final decision is up to principals,
mult of remote learning, quar- education program that helped who make decisions based on
antines and school staff short- him build more focus. Hav- factors including academic prog-
ages. ing more one-on-one attention ress. California and New Jersey
from teachers helped too. So- also passed laws that made it eas-
Twenty-two of the 26 states that cially, he said the transition was ier for parents to demand their
provided data for the recent aca- easy, since most of his friends children repeat a grade, although
demic year, as well as Washing- had been in lower grades or at- the option was only available last
ton, D.C., saw an increase in the tended different schools already. year.
number of students who were
held back, according to an As- Research in the education world In suburban Kansas City, Ce-
sociated Press analysis. Three has been critical of making stu- leste Roberts decided last year
states — South Carolina, West dents repeat grades. for another round of second
Virginia and Delaware — saw grade for her son, who she said
Mr. Lloyd Benjamin Richard retention more than double. The risk is students who’ve was struggling even before the
Better known as Baby Lloyd” been retained have a two-fold pandemic. When virtual learn-
*14-10-1945 - †04-09-2022 Pennsylvania, where the Price increased risk of dropping out, ing was a bust, he spent the year
family lives, passed a pandemic- said Arthur Reynolds, a profes- learning at a slower pace with his
Date of the funeral will be announced later. era law allowing parents to elect sor at the University of Minne- grandmother, a retired teacher
to have a redo for their kids. sota’s Human Capital Research who bought goats to keep things
The following year, the number Collaborative, citing studies of fun.