Holding Back A Child Is Not The Answer

According to nobullying.com, ¨Over 77 percent of students have been bullied verbally, mentally, and physically. Each day about 160,000 students miss school because of bullying or because of their fear of being bullied.¨ According to nveee.org, ¨86% of students said, “other kids picking on them, making fun of them or bullying them” causes teenagers to turn to lethal violence in schools.¨ When a student gets harassed or bullied it adds anger inside of them and hate. The feeling of being picked on and having this negative attention can make a child act out or feel hatred and somehow want a way to let the anger out. They could also have it all stuffed inside with all of these horrible thoughts and one day decide to explode which could result in a horrible outcome.

Furthermore, an extra year allows many students to mature into young adults. Maturity is a huge problem in America's society. People who are not mature tend to make bad decisions, become easily depressed, have more addictions, and it can also lead to a bad character.

Many times children who are held back do not improve educationally, become emotionally hurt from being retained, lose interest in school, and are more likely to be a drop-out (Fair Test, 2007).

Bullies may grow up and lead a life of ultimate rebellion or crime. These students start off with bullying and advance into acts of vandalism, theft, and alcohol and possible drug abuse. Left unchallenged, the bully will never understand that their behavior is inappropriate. The bully will grow up, victimize, and start a family of budding, pint-sized oppressors. Bullying is a learned behavior. Whereas, the victim may live a life of depression and anxiety. The victim may never reach their full potential because of fear and uncertainty. The victim has a difficult time making and keeping friends, and seeks to stay clear of confrontation. The victim loses his/her control or voice and lives in the shadow of the aggressor. Over time, the victim may begin to miss class, fake illnesses, and believe that he or she deserves bad treatment. In the end,

Under a year-round schedule, the students benefit by having smaller breaks, meaning they can quickly snap back to previously learned information. When information is stored, but not used for an extended period of time, anyone can lose that information. Due to the shorter breaks, students may find it difficult to find a summer job, or a job at all, but there are jobs that work with students or maybe just limit their time at the workplace.

This can leave the child feeling very sad and left out. They will feel as though they are different and that they don’t fit in, it can also leave them feeling like they don’t want to come to school anymore.

The benefit to the child is that they can partake in activities with their peers rather than be left out. This ensures the child has maximum opportunities in school and doesn’t have to miss any lessons.

They are also scared to tell people because they will feel powerless or weak. Over a span of time, the victim feels so down about themselves and feel they deserve to be bullied. One major negative effect of bullying is low performance in school. They feel no motivation for anything, and school is probably the last thing they are worried about. They will most likely to skip school or fail tests. Another major effect of bullying is depression. Sleeping patterns will change and sadness will increase. You will notice the change in motivation to do activities with friends or play sports. In most extreme cases, self-harm is a result. In a study from Bullying Statistics, according to the CDC, Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year and for every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. People need to understand no matter how bad any situation is, nothing is bad enough in which they have to take their own

Holding students back doesn’t work either, especially once they have reached adolescence. When students are held back in middle and high school, they become discouraged, are often significantly older than their classmates and often eventually drop out.

Students who are constantly targeted are likely to become increasingly withdrawn from their peers and suffer risk of depression and suicidal thoughts. Some actually end up killing themselves or even taking it out on the bullies.

Many researchers have been interested and have conducted different experiments on whether retention causes positive or negative effects. One group of college professors followed two groups of students in Florida: the first group barely passed the reading test and got to continue to fourth grade, the second group barely missed the mark and had to repeat third grade. The researchers continued to watch these students for the following eight years; they saw that the major effects started to fade, but after a few years the kids that were retained had fewer remedial classes and higher GPS’s when they got to high school (Kamenetz, 2017). The common belief is when a kid is retained, there is an increased risk of them falling behind in higher grades

While maintaining a grade point average, benefits come with it. Maintaining an average helps students in different ways. Having this requirement motivates the student to do good in school so they can participate in sports. This also helps students

The longer term affects could mean that they are less likely to progress through education to University or become teenage parents, which will then have a knock on effect to their ability

Moreover I am sure some children and parents would loved that type of strategy or “reward”, to think about it there are a couple of positive effects that could result in this. One of them could be the fact that the money children would be making out of this “reward” for doing well in school, could go to their future founds, such as college and higher education. I addition to this positive impact of this type of strategy would be future opportunities to attend a better college. Reason being is since children were started early with their paying “reward” and succeeding with their studies it gives them this opportunity to go to the better university in the future.

If they are not graded on that, then will not be able to see how those aspects of their education are necessary in the “real world”. This can also negatively affect their grades. Students that are good at regular assignments, but not good when it comes to tests, it could be a serious issue for them, as it will be harder to get their grades back up. Several teachers told parents that they wouldn’t award the highest number on the scale, or that extra work must be completed to earn 4s, leaving children confused on how to reach the advanced level of proficiency (See “Parents give standards-based grading scale F” ¶ ). Since students aren’t being graded on their classroom participation or homework completion, their grades can take a major downfall if they do make a big mistake, such as bomb a test, and they might not be able to make up for it by earning bonus points from extra credit either. If they do, then it would be a lot more work than it should be. Students who are “standards-based” graded will see their overall grade drop due to the system’s inability to evaluate all aspects of their education, as well as not being able to fully understand its methods.