give him the gift of time ,my daughter has ADD and she kept going on we made the hard choice to keep her back in 3rd and until then she kept falling more behind,she is now doing better she isnt the top of the class but she isnt the lowest either ,this year she is going to be in a inclusion class with low,med ,high students i feel like this will help also .but if your child is going to be staying back do it now dont wait it was hard for her the first couple of weeks lots of tears i feel like it would have been better if we had done this in grade k ,we were told she will catch up she didnt grade k is where they get the basics needed to learn to read she went back in a class for about hour a day to learn the basics when she was in first ,every year she kept falling more behind because she was still trying to get a hold on what she had learned the year before ,we did all the tutor stuff every summer also but with her she needed that extra year to catch up she loves school now and has made a lot of growth this past year ,she will be going to fourth this year after doing 3rd 2 times we are ready ,just i would like to make a sug to you if you do hold them back change teachers and rooms we did not and both she and i were so tired of that classroom by the end came .but honest that is the only thing i would change about my choice ,like i said she has really improved since the past years and her social skills seemed to be more like the kids she is with now instead of the kids she used to be with

His new classmates will not be aware that he was in kindergarten last year, his old classmates will just be curious, his family may phrase it wrong, but they are just interested in his well-being. I'd be honest with close family. At some point, your siblings may face the same struggle with one of their children.