The high school/18 year old question seriously

[Todd]

How many 18 year olds do you know still in high school at 18?

I asked myself this and went back to my highschool year book to see how many 18 year olds were in my grduating class.

I was shocked to find that in a graduateing clas of 72 that there were only 6 students that were 18 years old {I was among the 6}. the rest were a mojority of 17 years old bt there were a few gifted 16 year olds that graduate with me. I found this an eyeopener.

So how many 18 year olds do you still know in high school.

 

[lilminx]

In high school, I graduated at 17 but most of the people in my graduating class turned 18 during their senior year.

 

[Silverlily]

I was eighteen when I graduated. My oldest daughter will also be eighteen when she graduates.

Two families my family is close to also have children that were eighteen as seniors.

 

[morninggirl5]

The facts are that 45 states have a cut-off date for entering Kindergarten. Of those 45 states, 24 require that the child be 5 by September 1 (I included earlier cut-offs in this total.) The remaining 5 states allow the school district to set the minimum age. All of the states require that the child be 5 by Jan 1.

http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2000/rpt...2000-r-1188.htm


So, 12 years later when entering their senior year of high school, these students would be 17 and turn 18 during their senior year of high school. You could probably do some statistical analysis, but given the large number of high school students, it's a safe assumption that the birthdays would be equally distributed throughout the year. So by December, one fourth of the students would be 18, by February that number would raise to one half.

SO, it's VERY common for 18 year olds to be high school seniors. In fact, with the increased reluctance to ever allow a student to skip a grade and more and more parents waiting until the child is 6 to enter school, the trend is for more and more 18 and 19 year old seniors, not less.



That was my serious try to get the point across in an earlier thread. Maybe this time, someone will listen.

 

[Angel]

The cutoff in NY for entering kindergarten is that you must be 5 years old by December 1 of the year your parents plan to send you to school.

My birthday is on October 11, so I got a pretty early start and was 4 years old my first day. My mom had the option to wait a year til I was 5 but she didn't.

I was 13 my first day of 9th Grade. 17 when I finished.

Most of the kids in my class were older than me from kindergarten and up, and most of them didn't fail. They were all 18 at graduation. I and two other girls who had birthdays in November were the ONLY three who were under 18 in June of our senior year.

 

[Todd]

Thank you Morninggirl

that is interesting information to have

although now I am wondering why my class was so screwed up. must be a candian thing i dunno.

 

[morninggirl5]

Must be a result of the weather, all those babies being born in the summer months there Todd.

I turned 18 the day I graduated from high school and was one of the youngest in my class. Most of the people with summer birthdays had started school late and were about to turn 19.

 

[april-wine]

i was 18......so were all my pals......

many high school seniors are 18

 

[teresafannin]

Here in the FW area, the trend for the last 10 years has been parents starting their children later. I think September 1 is the cut off date. My son was the youngest of his circle of friends, he had just turned 5 when he started Kindergarten. Just about all of his friends had turned 18 by Christmas of their senior year. More & more parents are waiting until the child is already 6 before they start Kindergarten. My nephew graduated this past May & all of his friends were 18 before they graduated.

 

[Basia]

age

All of my friends where seventeen when they graduated last june. I was the lone eighteen year old. but I was born in January, the rest had summer birthdays...

 

[Guest]

I turned 18 June of '95.

By the time I graduated HS in Dec. '95, I was 18. But, only because I was one semester late. Few people in my graduating class were 18 in May of '95. Most were still 17.

 

[ohiobbw]

I was 18 when I graduated. So were most of my friends.

I believe the law around here is that you have to be 5 by Sept 30 to enter Kindergarten. My birthday is of course Oct 4 (and I was supposed to be born on the 30th).


(Edited because I typed the wrong date for my birthday, I think it's time for bed!)

 

[Cheyenne]

I was 13 my first day of 9th Grade. 17 when I finished.

Most of the kids in my class were older than me from kindergarten and up, and most of them didn't fail. They were all 18 at graduation. I and two other girls who had birthdays in November were the ONLY three who were under 18 in June of our senior year.

I can relate to being the youngest. I started kindergarten at age 4 when there were still mid-year classes that graduated in January. When the school system moved to June graduation classes only, I was put ahead. I had enough credits to graduate my junior year when I had just turned 16 in March, but I wanted to stick around for my senior year. I didn't turn 17 until March of my senior year in high school. 18 was the legal drinking age back then, and I was almost though my freshman year of college before it was legal for me to be in the bars!

I think the parents who start their kids in school a little later, at
5 1/2 or early 6, are smart. It was always hard for me being so young compared to my classmates.

 

[La Huesera]

I was 18 as well.. My birthday is in January and I graduated in May. I was one of the older people in my class.

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

I was 18 when i graduated.
i was 4 in kendegarden(sp) but in ontario there are 5 years of highschool

if i started at 5 like i was supose to, i would have graduated at 19 like everyone else in my class

 

[Angel]

It was always hard for me being so young compared to my classmates.

Even a year made a difference. I was allowed to do stuff a year later than all of my friends. I couldn't go clubbin' with them on Saturday nights my senior year. (Aside from teen night, which was mobbed with 13 year olds) I was the last to drive. The last to be able to get a job.

I watched my classmates do many many things that I was kept from doing because of age.

When I began my first semester at college, I wasn't allowed to drive after 9pm, cause I was still only 17. I took night classes. I usually didn't leave campus until well after 9:30, which is allowed on a minor's license, but other than that I was pretty much SoL til October.

 

[MissTaken]

I was 18 as were most of my class mates.

Ahhh and the golden days, the age to drink alcohol was 18 too! OH what fun!

 

[lilminx]

When I began my first semester at college, I wasn't allowed to drive after 9pm, cause I was still only 17. I took night classes. I usually didn't leave campus until well after 9:30, which is allowed on a minor's license, but other than that I was pretty much SoL til October.

I had the same problem, Angel...

 

[sigh]

i was 17 when i graduated...most people were 18 though

i was just friggin brilliant, i guess...either that or they got sick of looking at me and tossed me out

 

[Guest]

#1- It's not illegal to write about sex with minors. If it were, Nabokov's Lolita would be illegal. It obviously isn't. In fact, it was made into a movie.

#2- AJacks doesn't care about morality. He's still mad at Dixon about an argument that took place months ago. Because he can't win an argument with Dixon, he's decided instead to accuse him of perversions. Ignore him and his racist, ugly, hateful drivel and maybe he'll do find somewhere else to troll.

 

[sigh]

#1- It's not illegal to write about sex with minors. If it were, Nabokov's Lolita would be illegal. It obviously isn't. In fact, it was made into a movie.

#2- AJacks doesn't care about morality. He's still mad at Dixon about an argument that took place months ago. Because he can't win an argument with Dixon, he's decided instead to accuse him of perversions. Ignore him and his racist, ugly, hateful drivel and maybe he'll do find somewhere else to troll.

i've got no argument with either point....but are you on the right thread?

feeling confused

 

[Willing and Unsure]

i've got no argument with either point....but are you on the right thread?

feeling confused

i thought i was the only one slightly confused by that... but as for the thread at hand.. i have no comment

 

[Todd]

i've got no argument with either point....but are you on the right thread?

feeling confused

No "it" isn't in the right thread. I posted this out of legitamite curiosity. and it seems split across the country.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

ok... i changed my mind... i do have a comment... when i graduated high school i was about 4 months short of being 19. i was one of the oldest people in my class.. it doesnt feel that way now (in college) but it really did in high school some days. now my sister was 17.. almost 18.. when she graduated high school. and she was one of the youngest. considering how she turned out now, my parents kinda wish they had of kept her an extra year in kindergarden or sumthin

 

[Gilly Bean]

When I graduated, I had just turned 19. Out of my graduating class, several were the same age as I was, with most being 18, and only a handful being 17 still.