re: Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (Natchitoches)

Actually, my son turned 19 in December of his senior year without a holdback. He disappeared from the growth chart as a toddler so we started him late, hoping he would catch up. He’s 23 now and still built like a jockey, lol. But that is definitely the exception and not the norm. As far as the school goes, I had a classmate leave our high school in the early 80s to attend. She was much smarter than the rest of us, and a bit awkward socially. Never heard from her again so I’m not sure how it worked out for her. Her younger brother stayed at our small town public school and later attended Harvard. Both of their parents were teachers at our high school. Unbelievably intelligent family now that I think of it. They were both great teachers as well.

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Entering their senior year? Literally no one who didn’t get held back.

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Maybe it was different when I was a kid, you had to turn 6 by a certain date in the school year to start the 1st grade, I didn’t make the cutoff and had to start the next year, I and a whole lot of people were 18 going into the 12th grade, almost every guy in my senior class had a draft card.