3rd grade retention: Texas study finds being held back lowers graduation rates – Chalkbeat https://share.google/FgyltOFUtEN6T8ngl
Did you know they wanted to hold me back in 4th grade? I was straight A student, so why? I wasn’t socializing, and they thought my maturity didn’t match my classmates or something like that. I couldn’t connect with my peers, so they thought I was slow.
Their evidence was that I spent recess on the swings rather than playing with other kids…
I could vent for awhile about this, but I’ll try to keep it short. They tried to convince my parents, and they weren’t having that. So to try to force us to concede, they brought in an independent psychologist to do an evaluation on me…
I don’t really remember what happened in that meeting, but I do have a vague recollection of feelings & a weirdly vivid memory that you don’t really know if it’s real, but somehow you know. It’s a strange experience of a particular form of dissociation….
Whatever…
The conclusion of the meeting was basically her coming out and telling them, “why would you consider holding back a genius?”
The weirdly vivid memory surrounds this psychologist. I don’t remember if it really was a woman, but that’s how I remember it. I’m kinda getting lost in trying to figure out what I mean while writing, but I’m just gonna end up getting lost, so I’ll just end quick.
This odd feeling I’ve had has occurred around 3…4 psychologists. This moment where I know, and there’s a part of me that goes, “but are you ready?” And then it sorta fades, only for me to come back to the moment like nothing has happened in between, but for some reason…
The Fear öF GöDD B present.
♡Sugar☆World☮ 