putting my son back a year

the same question was asked earlier in the week but for a different reason!

If yours is simply to 'fit in' and 'Maltese' holding back won't make any difference, he will just be with children younger than him??

He will be going to Mosta boys. that is a brand new school. If you put him back a year, he will be in the new middle school system, in an old school and will get caught up in no one knowing anything!!! My son was held back in year 1 for many reasons, I would do anything for him to be in Form 2 now and in Mosta boys! I think it's the fear of the unknown and the middle school is an unknown entity!!!

emma1979 wrote:

Hi just wondering if anybody else is in the same position.  My son is 12 and should be starting form 2 here in September but I have asked to keep him back a year due to his lack of maltese and fitting in! Has anybody else done this if so do you know what school he will go to we are from St paul's bay I am being told different things!!!
Thanks

I am in the same situation. My daughter is 12 and she is starting form 2 in September. I asked to keep her back a year. Not because of Maltese. They learn second language in form 1 and we've chosen German. Anyway, school administration refused to keep her one year back and now the child gets private lessons in German in order to compensate what they've learned in form 1. On the top of that English is not her native language.
BTW, can I refuse learning of Maltese? It would be too much.

why would you refuse her the oppurtunity to learn maltese, it would make their lives so much easier ... i wish i had  the oppurtunity to learn maltese ,
children take to languages better then adults anyway

robpw2 wrote:

why would you refuse her the oppurtunity to learn maltese, it would make their lives so much easier ... i wish i had  the oppurtunity to learn maltese ,
children take to languages better then adults anyway

Yes and they are starting to insist on it for further education, especially vocational courses.

Why dont you hold your child back and see how it goes...If he/she finds the work too easy, then put them where they are supposed to be. I held my kids back a year and I was glad I did...but I always had the option to put them foward if they felt the work was too easy. They are also given the option to take their O levels with the kids they were originally supposed to be with.

Thanks for the advice guys think I'm going to put him back a year he was struggling at home so feel it will be better for him

Hi Emma,

He'll be in my son's year then! There is a meeting at 09:15 at Mosta girls school on the 28th August, to inform us of how things are going to work in the new system, times, buses etc.

I'm going down the cove Monday after summer school, around 12:30 if you want to meet up??

Is there ?  I have to write a letter to mr testa the college principle I'm just waiting for the address of his secretary ms mariella hill in naval, hopefully I will get this tomorrow (unless somebody here knows it).  I have been told he is out of the country at the moment so probably won't here anything for a couple of weeks.