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

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



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.

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I was 17 at graduation (June b'day), didn't attend the 2nd semester of Senior Year since I had enough credits and was enrolled in 3 study halls anyway (1st, last, and adjacent lunch, so 1st semester I slept in, left early, and took a long lunch). This was in Bartlett, TN. They had wanted me to skip ahead and graduate with my sister 2.5 years older but I didn't want to be like one of those "ABC TV After School Special" kids graduating HS at 14-15.