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Have you had the IEP meeting for next year yet? I would request one. In that meeting bring up your concerns that you think he is ready to be moved out of the special ed classroom and into regular mainstream class. what are their concerns about this? My son is in 8th grade now. he has been in the ED program since first grade. It started out with him in what was called the diagnostic program. he was sever adhd off the charts. he has outgrown that. he was on meds from first thru 7th grade. but as he got older the special class stuff got smaller and smaller. he is now in mainstream everything but he does get a study hall each day. that is the only concession he has now. but you need to work with the school and be ready for them to state their reasons for why or what he needs. you can definitly fight it. but make sure your fighting it for the right reasons for your son. and your son not liking the teacher or her not liking him is not reason to pull your son from a special ed program he may need. Repeating first grade may work and may not. We had our son repeat first grade. He was in speech therapy a lot and missed a lot in the classroom. they wanted to move him to second grade but when I questioned how he would keep up they said "oh we will pull him out for catch up work" when I questioned if the class would sit still and wait for him they said um no" so he would have been behind forever which we didn't want. so he redid 1st grade and has been at level ever since so it was the right choice for us. Good luck. you are your sons best advocate.