What is the maximum amount of years anybody has spent in highschool?

I was there for the average 4, but I knew a guy in school who got held back and was there at 21 years old, which was the oldest you could still attend high school in my state. Granted he had a pretty rough life and was an actual gangbanger in the past. I think he graduated when I was a senior. Gotta give this guy props for making something of himself after ruining his teen years.

Some people either sink or swim. In the long run it doesn't matter if you're a literal retard, a former addict or a lazy pile of shit, if you' want to make something of yourself and are willing to put in the work that's all that matters.
 
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Just by reading your post I can tell you were in high school for 7 years.
I knew a guy who was in high school for 6 years he ended up dropping out when I was a Freshman. The only reason I know who he was and that he dropped out was because we ended up getting into a fight in the middle of biology that same year.
 
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In the US a person can't be in high school past 20 or 21 years old. At that point they have to enter a GED program if they want to continue.

I don't think I even heard of more than 1 person who was held back for a year. Usually if someone's held back for more than that they enter alternate education, because obviously they're either a mental retard or they're a delinquent, both of which they make specialized programs for.

Apochrypha said:
I was there for the average 4, but I knew a guy in school who got held back and was there at 21 years old, which was the oldest you could still attend high school in my state. Granted he had a pretty rough life and was an actual gangbanger in the past. I think he graduated when I was a senior. Gotta give this guy props for making something of himself after ruining his teen years.

Some people either sink or swim. In the long run it doesn't matter if you're a literal retard, a former addict or a lazy pile of shit, if you' want to make something of yourself and are willing to put in the work that's all that matters.
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I think sometimes if you're a former addict, it isn't even so much putting in work so much as embracing your strengths and weaknesses. Some people look at being a recovered junkie or a weirdo or w/e as being something to be pitied, but the truth is it just makes you something different.

That's why I sometimes say addiction is almost an ok thing, because the strong are forged into something better, and the weak fucking die.
 
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It used to be 23 in many states before 1990, so I knew multiple people who would be 23-25 by the time they finally graduated. Many were held back in grade school (on purpose by their fathers), to get an edge in sports and used their siblings or cousin's birth certificates to keep playing those sports. Lots of them were Puerto Ricans playing American League baseball trying to break into the minor leagues before they embarked on a life of crime or installing cable lines.

One offensive lineman at a prominently black high school was supposedly in high school for 9 years, he transferred from a different high school after taking a year off for knee surgery to keep playing football and was 300 pounds, which was impressive in 1986.
 
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this. Had a friend at 5 years in HS, he simply didn't care. They said we kick you out after your 6th (he was going to be 21), got his GED, learned a trade and now makes great money as a 10 year electrician. Sometimes I envy the simple life.
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Bruh electrician is what I would have done if I hadn't gone into academia
FML
 
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Bruh electrician is what I would have done if I hadn't gone into academia
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Admittedly I love being in the IT field as it is my passion, but I fucking HATE people. Coworkers, customers. If I'm not being paid to even see their name I want nothing to do with it. But I'm really good at what I do and I guess maybe I've made some human elemants. idfk.

Flip side. Doing shit with my hands, getting dirty and hurting is how I was raised and it's feels great to accomplish something. Coming up with my only good friend we did tons of low volt and electrical work and it was honestly some of the most enjoyable times I've ever had getting paid retarded amounts of money. You just hit 30 and your shit starts hurting and it doesn't really get better. Little older and I still don't know, side work keeps me sane at least. Start dabbling at least it's great
 
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It was 21 in my state, too. My high school was the designated tard repository for the district and we had a handful of 20 year olds running around the hallways.
 
There were many kids in my high school that were there until they were 21 (and many more that dropped out the second they turned 18 ), These also happened to be the kids who would bicker with the teachers when they were asked to do their work or offered help if they didn't understand it.

They were mostly niggers too, but I'm sure that had nothing to do with it.
 
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High school is a bit different where I live. Simple breakdown:

Age 6: Preschool (Technically children have to attend this, but because it's a recent change in the law and kids generally don't learn anything many parents don't bother)

Age 7 to 13: Primary school.

Age 14 to 15 OR 16 OR 18: High school.

Age 15: The lowest age you can legally drop out, formerly you had to be in the 2nd year of HS(The child's guardian must consent to this)

Age 16: You earn a "Junior Certificate" if you pass this year's final exam and may freely leave to seek your fortune in the job market.

People used to do this and go straight into an apprenticeship for a trade back when work was plentiful. These days this is economic suicide.

Age 18: As above, but you are awarded a "Senior Certificate" which has one of several endorsements(May go to university/suitable for technical higher education/neither).

I tried to cut the jargon here.

I'll describe some of the people I knew that spent a long time or a very short time in school.

Oldest person: Stupid slut in my neighborhood. Dropped out of primary school at 14 because pregnant. Became some gangbangers' whore for a few years, then led the gang for a while - apparently the leader left it to her. When the gang collapsed (zero leadership skills on this bitch) she decided to go to university. They laughed at her and told her to pass school first.

Entered high school at 23 (after I petitioned the deputy director of fucking education on her behalf - yes, I was a sentimental fool). Spent 4 months in the 14 year olds' class before being thrown out permanently for sexually harassing one of said 14 year olds.

I forget. I later learned that she told one of the teachers there, "you can't tell me what to do, I'm older than you!".

2. A Portuguese guy called Duarte who had a lot of machismo and little intellect. Joined my class at high school from juvie at age 16 (everyone else was 13 or 14). Just passed the first year so he could drop out 1st day of the next school year. His father agreed, but made him work in the family business which made him livid (he had this fantasy that daddy would give him a motorcycle the day he dropped out)

3. Jed. Another bozo. Jed kept getting suspended for dumbass shit (like extracting the teeth from a putrefying dog he found somewhere and putting them into his mouth to prove to people that he was a werewolf). I later heard he was still struggling through school until he was "aged out" at age 20. Probably had mild mental retardation.

4. Myself. I dropped out at age 16, later completed the last 2 years by correspondence and went on to university. Will not elaborate more on this one.

Youngest person to fully complete school that I have met:

Rose, a woman I met at university who managed to speedrun school.

Context:
It used to be legal to skip years if you were considered ahead of your peers. This was forbidden long before I started school.

Rose's school obviously didn't get the memo so she finished the final exam at 15 and started medical school the next year. She obviously couldn't speedrun that, but was consistently in the upper quartile of the class and qualified without problems.
 
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The UK almost never holds anyone back in grade as their system works on the age a person is rather than the level they should have achieved by the age they are.

Occasionally kids are moved forward, but they have to be super bright.

Everyone is required to attend school to age 16, but is entitled to free state education to 19 years of age.

If someone horribly fails all of their exams at 16, then they usually can find a college foundation course to get them into a course which will qualify them to do something, or they can take a job and try and work up.
 
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It used to be 23 in many states before 1990, so I knew multiple people who would be 23-25 by the time they finally graduated. Many were held back in grade school (on purpose by their fathers), to get an edge in sports and used their siblings or cousin's birth certificates to keep playing those sports. Lots of them were Puerto Ricans playing American League baseball trying to break into the minor leagues before they embarked on a life of crime or installing cable lines.

One offensive lineman at a prominently black high school was supposedly in high school for 9 years, he transferred from a different high school after taking a year off for knee surgery to keep playing football and was 300 pounds, which was impressive in 1986.
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Apparently you get free education up til age 26 in Texas if this graph is anything to go by.

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Things like this is why I don't really care about destinctions such as red and blue states and prefer to look at individual differences instead.
 
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Cyberpunk Panatela said:
It used to be legal to skip years if you were considered ahead of your peers. This was forbidden long before I started school.

Rose's school obviously didn't get the memo so she finished the final exam at 15 and started medical school the next year. She obviously couldn't speedrun that, but was consistently in the upper quartile of the class and qualified without problems.
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Yep. My grandfather was enrolled in an Ivy League school at age 16.
 
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