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What age did you graduate upper secondary school(high school)?

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20 got kicked out of public school at 16 which was my graduating year still ended up taking college courses from ages 17 to 20 before graduating high school.
 

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17, a lot of us must be summer babies or went to school before the cut off was September 5th I think it is.

Is there a cut off based on your birthday in the U.S? My apologies, I'm not that familiar with how the US school system works
 

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Is there a cut off based on your birthday in the U.S? My apologies, I'm not that familiar with how the US school system works

You have to be 5 by September 1st to start kindergarten. I’m not sure if that’s every state.
 

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Is there a cut off based on your birthday in the U.S? My apologies, I'm not that familiar with how the US school system works
Yes. I turned 5 a few weeks after the cut off so had to start kindergarten the following year.
 

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You have to be 5 by September 1st to start kindergarten. I’m not sure if that’s every state.

Yes. I turned 5 a few weeks after the cut off so had to start kindergarten the following year.

I never knew that, that's so cool and interesting lol, in my province everyone who is born in the same year usually starts school at the same time.
 

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18 and I was so over it by then. I didn’t realize until I was an adult how big of a difference that 1 year makes. I preferred hanging with the adults that I worked with after school than my 17 year olds classmates.
 

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I turned 18 in Feb and graduated that June. Thought I was so ready for college!

I can't believe it's been 11 years. Sometimes I wish I could be 18 again. I'd change A LOT, but that's part of life I suppose. We all think we have sh!t figured out when we're that young but we don't know sh!t! :ROFLMAO:
 

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Is there a cut off based on your birthday in the U.S? My apologies, I'm not that familiar with how the US school system works
Depends on the state, and whether the school is public or private. There are still many (good) schools that test children before entering, which allows for younger children to start school early.

I was not a summer baby, born in deep winter, and finished early.
 

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Is there a cut off based on your birthday in the U.S? My apologies, I'm not that familiar with how the US school system works
Yes, under certain circumstances. Most public schools (schools that are funded by the local government) require children entering elementary (primary) school to have reached their 5th birthday by September of that school year. Private schools--schools funded by parent-paid tutition/fees--tend to be more flexible about this requirement.
 
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Graduated secondary school at 18, for some reason l had to do the sixth-grade twice.The elders involved in this,they were saying l looked too young for my age. I'm still coming to terms with that excuse
 

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I never knew that, that's so cool and interesting lol, in my province everyone who is born in the same year usually starts school at the same time.
It is odd. I wonder if it’s something parents can contest.
I was going to clubs and partying but then had to go to high school lol
Someone else here mentioned hanging with older teens/young adults, that was the same for me as well.
 

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17, a lot of us must be summer babies or went to school before the cut off was September 5th I think it is.
I don’t even get the purpose of the age cut off. Like 4 months to hold a kid back a whole year? What do they think is sooo different in that 4 months compared to the children born earlier in the year on average developmentally? I wonder who came up with that weird rule. I never experienced it until we moved to the south and the school wouldn’t let my baby cousin start kindergarten until the next year because she’d missed the cutoff date by like a week. Makes no sense.
 

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