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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think 18 is a magical age at which you get to do whatever you want, especially while still in HS and living at home.

Not sure what you do, OP, but I would be furious too.  And not just at lack of control - at the demonstrated lack of maturity and courtesy.[/quote]

This.  [b]People are acting like this is a college kid, [/b]instead of a high schooler who's obviously counting on Mom & Dad to go buy his school supplies so he'll be ready for Day One.  He's legally an adult, but he's still a kid in reality.[/quote]

Welk, he's the age of a college kid. The fact that his parents presumably decided to redshift him years ago doesn't make him any less of an adult.[/quote]

[b]eh, my kid will be turning 18 years old towards the beginning of his senior year. [/b] I promise you - he was not red shirted.  He simply missed the Kindergarten cut off date by about 2 weeks.

He is big for his age so I know that some of the other parents think that we "red shirted" him.  We didn't.

Most kids turn 18 at some point during their senior year, don't they?[/quote]  Same here, my kid is a senior this year and will turn 18 in a few months.  I didn't redshirt him, didn't even know what that meant back then.    My husband was never redshirted and he graduated HS at 19.  He was held back a grade.[/quote]

We also have a son that will be 17 throughout his senior year (late summer birthday).  We had considered holding the start of Kindergarten back for him but went ahead and sent him to K.  He has done well.  The big maturity differences that you see in preschoolers who might be 6 months older/younger than each other seem to be all evened out by the time the kids are into their HS years.[/quote]

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