re: Why did Stetson Bennett graduate HS at 20?

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Spring? Wouldn't it typically be late Summer/early Fall kids? For instance, if you're born in August, you are either going to be one of the youngest in one class or one of the oldest in the other class. The class cutoff is typically in September, I believe.

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I was referring to kids that are actually held back, as in being in the grade they shouldn't be in, not ones at/very near the cutoff. Those kids that are held back are spring/summer birthdays normally. You basically never see it happen with kids born in the fall.

Bennett, due to his fall birthday, is nearly a full year older (about 9-10 months) than the kids for whom it's normally a borderline/tough decision. So even if he wasn't held back a year, he'd be one of the older kids in his (correct) graduating class. So it makes the decision to hold him back even stranger. As someone else said, given he still hasn't received his undergrad degree yet, maybe he just struggles in the classroom or something and always has, even as a child, I don't know.

If he graduated in his "correct" year, he'd be 3 months behind the oldest correct kids, 3 months ahead of the median correct kids and 9 months ahead of the youngest correct kids. Instead, he was 9 months ahead of the oldest correct kids, 15 months ahead of the median correct kids and 21 months ahead of the youngest correct kids in what ended up being his graduating class.