Daughter having to attend kindergarten again
** Cross posted ** Me and my wife have been feeling so bad as we recently had to make a decision to have our daughter repeat kindergarten. She is 5 years old and is going to be 6 at the end of June, so the teachers are saying she will not be highly affected in terms of age. She has to redo kindergarten because she has a speech delay and has been getting help for one since she was about 2 years old. She has an IEP and a speech therapist in school. The speech issue is articulating sounds and words which makes it difficult to get started on reading, her writing is better, but they are saying she needs to be reading at least a little before going into 1st grade. She also is not as confident and doesn’t ask for help in class which is not helping her because even if she does know the answer she might be hesitant because she doesn’t want to get it wrong. They’re saying another year will build her confidence. We are just worried how things going to affect her when all her friends are moving forward and she is not. The teacher is saying most likely she won’t be with the same students so either way she loses those friendships. We are also feeling guilty about not getting her a tutor sooner maybe that would’ve helped. We are just having many mixed emotions but don’t want her to struggle next year when she is already behind. We are just wondering if we made the right decision by keeping her back another year? Has anyone went through something similar and made it a second year in kindergarten to share some wisdom?