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not usually a stickler for details but come on....

posted 10 years ago by candideyesontv
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I enjoyed the first episode, however a 16 year old freshman did not seem believable. I was 14 my freshman year and that was the average age. I still enjoyed the show. Then I read some reviews and the daughter in the show is described as a very smart 17 year old junior in high school. Well when I was in high school only the slower kids who had been held back, usually 2nd grade for some reason, were 17 years old in their junior year. I am attempting to let this go and enjoy the show but the second episode had more of the same writing that just doesn't make sense, unless things have seriously changed since I was in high school.

Baseball is a spring sport. They established in the first episode that it was the first day of high school. Are there schools that begin in spring? Where I come from high schools begin in fall and baseball tryouts aren't held for months after the start of the school year. Anyone else bothered by this? Have things changed that much? It took me completely out of the episode.

[–] wolfette-821-652688 10 years ago

Depends on when the birthday occurs and how early the parents put the kids in kindergarten. I turned 17 during my jr year, because my bday is in December. There were some kids who turned 16 at the end of our junior year.

Some parents enroll kids in K at 5years, some wait until 6yrs, especially for boys, because they don't want them to be smaller. Considering this semi-autobiographical story took place in the '90s, the time the children would have first entered the public school system would have been in the late 70s, when society was less about "it takes a village, and this is the current PC train of thought" that became pervasive in the Clinton era, this actually isn't a plot misstep. It's actually pretty accurate. We all knew someone who had that "lunkhead" brother who got held back (his ego wasn't an issue, ergo lost un-PC and touchy-feely culture), so this is actually pretty accurate.

[–] michaltastik 10 years ago

No, you can't wait until your kid is 6. When the kid is 5 on the start of school it's compulsory. If the kid is 4 turning 5 by whatever date the parents can decide. I was a fall baby and my kindergarten teacher was pissed that my mom put me in school at 4, instead of 5. She basically ruined my life for it.

I am also right there at the age that this guy was. The year of 1991-1992 was my sophomore year.

[–] mrocco-1 10 years ago

Great breakdown. When I read the OP I thought, wait I was 17 until spring of my senior year, 18 at graduation.

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[–] michaltastik 10 years ago

Let me add that Rachel's not dressed exactly right.... She should be in baggy jeans with the legs tapered and a fluffed out t shirt. She's dressed too much like current trends.

[–] dan6pitcher 10 years ago

I was 17 a week before my Junior year started and I was accepted to 8 of the US News and World's top 25 national Universities. I had a friend who was 18 when we started Junior year and he went to Yale.

And here in Southern California baseball is year round. We start fall ball games in mid-September so tryouts are usually the very beginning of school. I coach HS kids (I coach travel ball, but my kids all play HS ball) and this is true for all of them, no matter which school they go to. And I coach a kid who will be a 19 year old senior next year (meaning he was a 16 year old freshman).

[–] Tjanssen411 9 years ago

I for one Turned 15 at the start of Freshman Year... so I was 18 for the Bulk of my Senior Year...and never held back once

it all comes down to where your birthday falls in relation to the start of classes and or Labor day (assuming they are not directly related)... some Schools are more lax, others very strict.

as to the Sports thing, I've lost count of all the TV shows that have screwed up the Basics of the high school calendar some so bad it's not even funny

[–] BarstoolBlues33 8 years ago

Wait what? Most kids turn 15 freshman year, 16 sophomore year, 17, junior year, 18 senior year...you're an idiot.