PROMOTION, RETENTION OR ACCELERATION OF STUDENTS

June 26, 2019

This procedure provides a framework to be used by principals, school staff and parents when making decisions about the promotion, retention or acceleration of students. It is the practice of Trillium Lakelands District School Board that students of the same age be grouped together in classrooms and are differentiated for, regardless of the grade level expectations within individual programs. It is intended in TLDSB that retention and acceleration shall only be used in rare cases.

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