What caused so many problems when returning to school. My first grade teacher, Miss Gray, suggested to my parents that they hold me back a year of school. My parents were skeptical of his suggestion since it was also his first year of teaching. They looked at and thought about all the pros and cons. Some advantages being that it would give me a chance to relearn how to speak, read and write in English, and I would be familiar with the material due to the fact that it would be reviewed. The downsides being that I would be older than the rest of the kids, since I wasn't going to be in the same class as my old friends, and many more. Looking back on it now, I wish they hadn't made the decision to detain me for a year, because I don't think the only problem was that I had forgotten the English language, but the teacher who wasn't not willing to give me extra