Tina looked 30 years old, not 15.
And you hear her having rough sex with Rod.
shareYeah I figured all the kids were seniors in high school, 17 to 19 years old. When Marge is watching the news and they say Tina was 15, to me they just got on the scene of a grisly murder and are just repeating what they are told. iMO the reporter got Tina's age wrong, that's all.
shareNo one is 19 in high school unless they flunked a couple of grades...
sometimes their birthdays line up weird with the timing of how old you can be before you start so by the time the next enrollment starts the child is nearly a year older than the other kids in their grade. so you can have a 19 year old senior before the school year is over, but yeah unless they repeated grades they should a senior if they're 19 and only for a couple months before school is over.
shareNo, the oldest you can be in high school under normal circumstances is 18. The oldest possible senior will turn 19 about 4 months after they graduate (early October) and the youngest possible senior will turn 18 about 4 months after they graduate (early October, one day after the oldest possible senior turns 19).
The cutoff date in my state when I started school in 1980 was at some point during the first week of October. The cutoff date varies from state to state, i.e., sometimes it's in September or August, but it works out the same either way.
in the UK, all that happens 2 years earlier.
What age do you start school in the us?
we do 2 yr "infant" school , 4 yr Junior, 5yr high school.
start at 4, finish at 16,
then get a job, some go on in education
In my state most kids are 5 when they start school, but the youngest possible kids of any particular class (i.e., the ones born in September and early October on or before the cut-off date) are 4 when they start school and turn 5 shortly after starting school.
For example, suppose the cut-off date is October 5th and the first day of school is September 5th. Someone born on October 5th will be 4 when they start school and turn 5 a month later. Someone born on October 6th will have to wait until the next year, so they will be 5 when they start school and turn 6 a month later. Theoretically you could have a pair of twins, one born at say, 11:59 PM on October 5th, and the other born at 12:00 AM on October 6th, and the one who's a minute older would start school and graduate a year earlier than his/her sibling.
The first year of school is called kindergarten, and is rather pointless, at least it was when I was a kid (and it's probably even more pointless today). The days were half-length, so you had a morning group and an afternoon group. The lessons were things like learning to tie your shoes, counting, and learning the alphabet; things which all but the dumbest kids already knew.
Grades 1–4 are called primary school, grades 5–8 are called middle school (with grades 7 and 8 being in a subcategory called junior high school; most people just call it "junior high" without saying the word "school"), and grades 9–12 are called high school and each year has a name:
Grade 9 is called freshman year
Grade 10 is called sophomore year
Grade 11 is called junior year
Grade 12 is called senior year
tnx for the info.
so 3 blocks of 4 years.
so are primary , middle and high generally completely separate schools?
In my case, primary (including kindergarten) and middle school were in the same building, but they were in different areas of the building (after entering through the front door you could head left to get to the middle school area or you could head straight to get to the primary school area). I know of at least one town in my area that has separate buildings for primary and middle school though.
High school was in a separate building located a few hundred yards down the street. High schools are always in a separate building. Well, I suppose it's possible that there are some exceptions somewhere in the US, but I've never heard of a high school not being in a separate building, at least not in modern times. If you go back to the "Little House on the Prairie" days, there were a lot of small towns throughout the US that had one-room schoolhouses that every student in town attended regardless of what grade they were in.
The first school in my hometown in Maine was a one-room schoolhouse built in the early 1800s. It was still standing in its original location up until the 1990s, out on a narrow dirt road in the woods with nothing else around. It was very cool; I went in there quite a few times when I was a kid in the 1980s. Then they moved the building to the downtown area and turned it into a museum, which irritated me to no end. It lost all of its charm when they moved it from its original isolated location in the woods.
When it was built it was in the main area of town, but eventually the main area of town shifted down into the valley because there's a river down there that was used to power the water wheels of various mills that sprang up (a grist mill and several woolen mills), and today, hardly anyone lives in the area of town where the first school was built.
My old high school , that i was at from 83 to 88, was knocked down and rebuilt a few years later.
I could see into my old classrooms as they were demolishing it.
I wish i'd sneaked onto the site to have a better look round!
What they are called depends a great deal on the area and traditions.
When I was a kid in the US plains, Catholic school it was arranged differently than MaximRecoil describes.
Kidergarten was considered preschool and was handled by the public school system.
1st to 8th grade were grade school
9th to 12th grade were high school
There was no middle or junior high school.
In the public schools in my area
1st to 5th grade were grade school
6th to 9th grade were junior high school
10th to 12th grade were high school
Neither of these examples, or MaximRecoils are right or wrong. Nor are other possibilities.
To be fair, Rod does strike me as the kind of guy who would've flunked a few grades.
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