It sounds more like a choice that your individual National Heritage Academy is making, not to promote your son to 9th grade. I wonder if you were just to enroll your son in a regular public high school, whether he could take some other proficiency or placement test and just never get his formal 8th grade certificate or diploma from the National Heritage Academy?
Is the rit a state test? What does "rit" stand for?
You probably will have a difficult time appealing the decision to retain your son if it is a state-mandated exam requirement. If it is just something your school district requires, then you may want to talk to your son's counselor to see if he can retake the test, or if there is any other option, like attending summer school.
no but it is taken every year but you have to pass the math in order to be promoted to the ninth grade but since my son didn't they're trying to hold him in the 8th grade
Ginaaa, welcome to Greatschools. Unfortunately, this is a nationwide community, and the terminology from one school to another isn't the same....I've never heard of a rit test...can you explain what it is? Is it some Rhode Island Test, or ?? Do students have to pass it every year, to be promoted to the next grade?
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