Accorinding to Arizona law, how many times can a child be retatined in school?

Question

My collegue has an 11 year old in her third grade class. He was retained twice already. So he should be in 5th grade. Is it legal for a student to be retatined twice?

Answer 1

I am assuming yes since in when I was in the fifth grade there was a sixth grader who was fourteen. However, I do not think they can hold them back for three years.

By the way I live in Arizona.

Answer 2

Is there a law regulating how many times a child can be retained?  I would think it would be as many times as necessary (barring major social differences with peers), but I don't know.

Answer 3

I'm not sure there are any laws regulating this, but it seems that after two years or so, the child should be put into some kind of a continuation school.  It could be socially difficult both for the child and for the others in class to have a much older child there with them.

Answer 4

I dont know why they detain a child, wasting his whole year. If he is regular to school but weak in studies, call his parents, tell them to to arrange extra coaching. I dont think so wasting his 2 years is good for him.