For kids/teens with birthdays in August? Or parents of them?

Question

were you held back a year and now youre the oldest in your class or did you start kindergarten when you were a young five and now youre the youngest? im just curious. my birthday is August 31 and im on the young side.

(for parents, what about your kids?)

Answer 1

I'm not in school anymore, but for us the cut-off was later than September 1st because my birthday's September 16th and I started school when I was 4 and I was one of the youngest. I think there were 2-3 that were a few weeks younger than me that I graduated with.

Answer 2

I'll be 17 on the 22nd and I'm going into grade 12. Isn't that how old most kids are in grade 12, is 17?

I never got the whole cut off thing lol But I've always been the same age as the other kids in my class.

~Danny

Answer 3

Well some how I managed to be the youngest with my october 6th birthday, don't know how that worked out since the cut off is sept 1

Answer 4

well-

i don't have kids, and my birthday is in september.

but my neighbor was born august 10th... he's the youngest.

where as my sister born june 23rd is the oldest.

so it's kind of confusing for me.

Answer 5

I don't have kids yet but In my experience I started young and was told if I was not up to date by the end of the year they would hold be back...By there surprise I passed with flying colors and for the rest of my school years I was the youngest and I graduated at 16 and I loved it....I am not sure what the question is or  are your just looking for experiences...ne ways I enjoyed being young..I think its always best to start them young if they don't make it hold them back it wont hurt.

Answer 6

August 6th - 15 & a sophomore so i'm younger than everyone all my friends are either 16 already or will be soon

Answer 7

my birthday is actually sept. 1, which is the cutoff, but they held me back, and I'm one of the oldest :)

Answer 8

well my birthday is august 26 and so I am close to the cut off date age but i will be 14 in 8th grade and I was held back but I am the third youngest of all my friends. Oh I started kindergarten when I was 6 instead of 5 thats when i was held back. but yet i am still young

Answer 9

My B days August 9, and I had to wait until I was 6 to start school and it was h**l for me because all the kids in my class were younger and they treated me like c**p because I always hung out with older kids.

Answer 10

Im always younger than everybody too!!

Its great though, because I get to feel like I'm younger than everybodt, so technically, I'm a little bit smarter.

Right??

lol idk.  My favorite part is that I'm more motivated to succeed before everyone. My competition has helped my grades, getting a job and my license.

The sucky part is that I worked super hard to be able to get my license just after my 16th birthday, and all my friends who were lazy got theirs when they were 17, and since they'll be 18 before they have their license for a year, they wont have to wait the full year (CA law says you can't drive others under 22 for one year, even with your license)

I feel kind of jipped in that respect.

Anywho...My birthday is the day before yours.  Happy early birthday!!

Answer 11

August 15th baby here. I was born in 1991, and I'm actually young for my class. I graduated from high school already, and I'm only going to be 17 on Friday(yay). I actually accelerated 2 years than the norm.

Answer 12

My birthday is august 4th and I was one of the oldest in my class like we gradted in June and 2 months later I was 19 but it was ok, I got to do all the cool stuff first like have my seet 16 part, drive, you get a lot more friends when you have you license and stuff like that. plus if you're older you get to act cooler than everyone else but that's my experoence, hope this helps.

Answer 13

i started early so now i'm the youngest [currently 14 and a sophomore, birthday is August 30]

happy early birthday to you, and i wish you a very merry unbirthday today.

Answer 14

My birthday is on the 28th.

The cut off date is September 1st.

I have a friend whos birthday is in November and she graduated the same year i did. Shes was the youngest.  

Answer 15

Yeah, actually my birthday is August 14th, 1990, so I'm turning 18 today.

I've always been one of the oldest in my grade since 7th, because that's when I made the transition from home school to a conventional school (boarding school). If you know anything about homeschooling, then you know it can either be a terrific opportunity, or it can jeopardize a student's potential. In my case, it set me several years behind of where I should have been when I repeated 7th grade. I should have probably been skipped back to 6th grade, but then I'd be turning 20 after graduation. So obviously that would not have been good either.

I've always been one of the oldest in my class, and that wasn't really a bad thing. Except now I am technically an adult, and still have a year of high school left. But aside from that, it's just been such a struggle trying to catch up on everything, both academically and socially, and even to some extent, as a human being. It was not easy, but I did mange to go from academic incompetence to becoming an AP Scholar. A lot of work went into it, and a lot of stumbling around trying to figure things out. I've done a lot of stumbling in math, especially. That's just something no matter how hard I try, I'm going to not succeed in. It's such a progressive subject and I wasn't there to learn it.

It was vital that I was held back a year. I didn't like being held back because for the longest time I was so insecure with myself because I thought I was an idiot, I felt mentally at the bottom of the barell, just not mentally handicapped. As far as age goes, it hasn't really changed anything. I didn't get my licence till junior year, so it's not like I was driving a couple weeks before 10th grade. It has made me more mature though, I have an extra year on me as far as gaining wisdom goes as a teenager.

Answer 16

Its different in different districts.  Here, if you aren't 5 by November something(Not sure of the actual date) you can't start until next year when you're 5

EDIT: But my birthday isn't until May. So my parents have never had to worry up having us an extra year at home. My brother his birthday is the day before mine so it made it way easy on my parents. I'm one of the youngest in my class. Most of the kids in my grade are already 14. I'm only 13. I guess it depends on where you live.

Answer 17

I went to school when I was 5. I'm 13, turing 14 August 31...(YAY! Our birthdays the same) and going to high school. I'm kinda the youngest...lol  

Answer 18

i guess i started early because im a sophomore and i just turned 14 on august 1st but hey its cool because i feel smarter than everybody else and i get to graduate at 16, 2 years earlier, so yay.

Answer 19

i birthday is august 5th, and ive always been the one of the youngest. :) but id prefer that to being the oldest.