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I'm wondering.... in the public schools, at what age do "kids" age out of high school?? Example: My child is in high school. In 9th grade, she had "kids" in her class who were 17,18, and 19 years old who had failed, been left back, etc. Seriously??? I don't want adult MEN in a classroom with my 14 year old!
Why do the schools allow this?? Is there some kind of education law on how long the school has to continue to let them attend?
I understand a 17 or 18 year old may be a senior in high school but these "kids" are getting left back or failing or whatever. Why put them in a classroom with 13 and 14 year olds?!?!? As for a 19 year old? Don't even get me started!!
Isn't it at 21? I went to HS in brooklyn and knew a 20 year old kid who was in 10th grade lol smh. He didn't stay in school long though
Could you imagine a 20 or 21 year old in classes with 13, 14, 15 year old kids??? CRAZY! I don't get why they don't make them go to some kind of alternate schooling once they hit 18 (unless, of course, they're actually in 12th grade at 18 and set to graduate!). For example, why not make them go to night school? Or take online courses at the library or something??
Usually, the 19+ go to alternative high schools or enrolled in a BOCES program. I've never heard of a 19 year old in the same class with 14 year olds in a "regular" 9th grade in a Long Island public school. NYC DOE does things differently.
This is on Long Island? I find it hard to believe that there are that many in one school.
I believe in NY you must be out of high school by the time you are 19 - you are entitled to special ed services through age 21 but that is with services following to college so that doesn't mean they are all in high school.
I'm wondering.... in the public schools, at what age do "kids" age out of high school?? Example: My child is in high school. In 9th grade, she had "kids" in her class who were 17,18, and 19 years old who had failed, been left back, etc. Seriously??? I don't want adult MEN in a classroom with my 14 year old!
Why do the schools allow this?? Is there some kind of education law on how long the school has to continue to let them attend?
I understand a 17 or 18 year old may be a senior in high school but these "kids" are getting left back or failing or whatever. Why put them in a classroom with 13 and 14 year olds?!?!? As for a 19 year old? Don't even get me started!!
I was 17 and 18 in classes with 14 year olds and I was never left back. I had to fill my schedule with nonsense electives after I satisfied my core class requirements.
When I was a teacher in the Buffalo area thirty years ago, the rule was that students could only be held back twice between K and grade 8, so there might be some 16 year olds in freshmen classes in 9th grade. I don't know if this was a state rule or a school district rule or if it is still in effect.
I agree with shiftymh that sometimes seniors will take freshman classes just to fill out their schedule. I took an art course as a senior, and most of the kids in it were freshmen and sophomores.
I remember it being 21 in NYC schools, probably a state set age. Oldest I remember in my high school was a 19 year old. I did not a kid who was left back twice in grade school, he graduated high school at 20, in 2001.
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