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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Few years ago, HS English Teacher was let go because she had an affair with her male student.  Luckily for her, he was redshirted and was 18 yrs old. So she was not sent to jail or labelled as a pedophile. Just an unexpected consequence of redshirting. [/quote]

The vast majority of kids turn 18 in high school. What are you talking about? [/quote]

What? Less than half of kids turn 18 in high school. High school graduations are usually in June, which is less than halfway through the year. July 2nd is the middle day of a non-leap-year and the first day on the later half of a leap year, so even in an extreme case that a graduation took place on June 30th(which would be exceptionally late) during a leap year, that would mean roughly 49.73 percent of kids would be 18 upon graduation. And this is only assuming that birth dates are uniformly distributed. The truth is that September is the most common month to be born.

https://www.rd.com/article/september-popular-birth-month/#:~:text=According%20to%20real%20birth%20data,followed%20closely%20by%20September%2019th.

When you take this into consideration and the fact high school graduations are far likely to be towards the beginning of June(maybe even May) than the end, it's safe to say that your statement is complete bogus.[/quote]

Did you just ignore all the kids born September-December???? :shock: [/quote]

It's because of those kids that graduating high school at 18 is less common than graduating as 17. I'm not sure how you can think I'm "ignoring" these kids when I explicitly posted a link saying that September is the most common month to be born.[/quote]

September -June = 10 months. That is MOST of a year. By January you’ve already got 4 months of kids who have turned 18. By June 1 you’ve got 9 months of kids who have turned 18. By graduation the only 17 year olds left are the summer birthday kids.

Now do you understand?

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I think you're thinking of the UK, where students have to turn 5 by August 31st to start year 1(which is what Kindergarten is called in the UK, while 12th grade is year 13). Everyone born between 2015 September 1 and 2016 August 31 will be starting year 1 this fall. So yes, in the UK(where redshirting and grade-skipping are banned BTW), students turn 18 between September 1st of year 13 and August 31st after graduation.[/quote]

DP. Cite your authority for the idea that most schools use a 12/31 cut off in the U.S. And refer to this link: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/statereform/tab5_3.asp

To illustrate, my DH's birthday is in early October. He started kindergarten on time, having turned 5 by 9/1. He turned 6 at the beginning of his K year and 18 at the beginning of his senior year. I don't know a single fall or winter birthday who graduated from high school at 17. Why do you think the focus on red shirting is among summer birthdays rather than, say, November birthdays? Your extreme obtuseness makes it likely you are a troll.[/quote]

New York [i]does[/i] have a calendar cutoff and it's one of the most populated states in the country.[/quote]

And yet the NY outlier only represents about 2.5% of US population.

The significant majority of states (and population) use 8/31 or 9/1... and ~95% of US population uses a date in the 7/31 to 10/15 range.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/what-age-to-start-kindergarten-by-state[/quote]

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