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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With Sept 30 cutoff and no redshirting there are kids in these age ranges:

8th: 12-14
9th: 13-15
10th: 14-16
11th: 15-17
12th: 16-18

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I thought the county allowed 12th graders up to age 23, which helps accommodate the ESOL kids earn their actual HS diploma, since they may have first arrived during their teen years?  We are discussing Montgomery right? [/quote]

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you don't have kids. Think about how you would feel if your 17-year-old had a 23-year-old in their class.[/quote]

What do you think happens one year later when they go to college? There are often more mature students in classes who delayed college for various reasons. So, I guess they can start getting used to it.[/quote]

But these older students usually take classes in the evening, because they have to work full-time during the day, while the traditional students take classes during the day.[/quote]

Until they switch majors, do a military stint, come back after gap years, go on their Mormon mission, there are countless reasons your snowflake might be next to a 23 year old student even, gasp, in the morning. There's nothing inherently scary about 17 year olds in the presence of 23 year olds. [/quote]

A 23-year-old has been old enough to drink and go clubbing for 2 years. A 17-year-old isn't even old enough to vote or sign their own papers.[/quote]

So? Multiple people here are bragging about being in college themselves at 17 or sending 17 year olds off to college. What do you think happens on campus?[/quote]

[/b]Everyone[b] with a September birthday will start college at 17, so I'm not sure what there is to brag about. Besides, do these people believe that someone who starts college the day before their 18th birthday at Cal-state Nowhere has more to brag about than someone who starts college on their 18th birthday at MIT?[/quote]

Again, in modern day MD, and anywhere else that has 8/31 or 9/1 cutoff, this is not the case. September birthdays who abided by cutoffs will turn 19 as soon as they get to college. State by state cutoffs and early entrance affect this of course, so you cannot say *everyone*.[/quote]

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