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Was He Held Back A Year In School?

posted 2 months ago by chilidoggg (14326)
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He was born August 2, 1984.

"After graduating from Middletown High School in 2003..."

Someone typically graduates when they're 18... He would have been 18 August 2, 2002...

[–] Zarkoff (1900) 2 months ago

Wouldn't that mean he was still 18 by may/June 2003?...

edit for clarity: If he graduated in 2003, that would put his 18th birthday shortly before the start of his last year of high school - August 2002. Making him 18 at his graduation ceremony.

2nd edit: Starting senior year in August 2002, he'd have a graduation in late May/early June 2003.

[–] chilidoggg (14326) 2 months ago

Graduation is typically in June. He didn't graduate in June 2002.

Did he do a stint in juvie?

[–] Zarkoff (1900) 2 months ago

He graduated in late may/early june 2003, most likely, a couple of months before August 2, 2003, his 19th birthday.

Timeline: August 2nd, 2002 turns 18. -> Late Aug. early Sept starts senior year -> senior year ends/graduation late may/early june 2003 -> Aug. 2nd 2003 turns 19.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (12126) 2 months ago

Unfortunately, he's not dumb. That troglodyte isn't even 40 so he'll be plaguing us for decades.

[–] chilidoggg (14326) 2 months ago

"he's not dumb."

"[Usha's] obviously not a white person."

That couch is getting a pounding...

[–] parkerbot (9259) 2 months ago

He took a year off to work at McDonalds and visit China.

Or wait, that wasn't him.

[–] Phids (776) 2 months ago

I don't get what the issue is. He'd still be 18 when he graduated in 2003.

Kids who are born in July/August can sometimes be put in either class. It would be a choice his parents made at the time.

[–] chilidoggg (14326) 2 months ago

Yes I understand that but that would only mean that he should have graduated even earlier, 2001.

[–] Zarkoff (1900) 2 months ago

It doesn't mean he should have graduated earlier. He's saying his parents had the option of starting him in school the year that they did or the year earlier. He was near the cut off, in a gray area.

You said he wasn't 18 when he graduated, when he clearly was.

He wasn't unusually old for someone graduating HS.

[–] chilidoggg (14326) 2 months ago

"You said he wasn't 18 when he graduated, when he clearly was."

It's not worth fussing over, but my point was that he was 18 + 9/10 months... as others have suggested, maybe in Ohio children can start first grade when they're 7 years old.

[–] ewd76 (1219) a month ago

It's a Hillbilly thing. You wouldn't understand.

[–] itsbananas2024 (1837) a month ago

"It's not worth fussing over,"

🙄

[–] FilmBuff (7261) 2 months ago

Children with a July or August birthday usually start kindergarten just after their 6th birthday, so it makes sense that someone born 8-2-84 would be in the class of '03. Both of my sons are born in early August, so I know this to be the case. In their two grades combined there is only one student with a July or August birthday that started just after turning 5. All the others waited and started just after turning 6, as Vance seems to have done.

He was 18 at graduation, just like most high school graduates.

[–] Ziggy (1802) 2 months ago

In some districts in Ohio, a child must be 5 by August 1, in order to start kindergarten. In some districts, a child must be 5 by September 1, but the parent would still have the right to chose to wait a year and begin kindergarten at age 6. This is quite common for boys with summer birthdays.

It's possible he simply started Kindergarten when he was 6.

[–] NukeDude (800) 2 months ago

So what?

You people are disgusting.

[–] ewd76 (1219) a month ago

He road the short bus early on which stunted his progress.