[NicknamedBob]

"... they can start 1st grade at age 6, which means a student whose birthday is in the summer (like mine) completes the final year of secondary school at age 17 and turns 18 before starting college in the fall."

Unless they're your kids, in which case they're probably doing college work at fourteen.

[Tax-chick]

Pat isn’t 14 yet.

However, other children who were advanced at earlier ages have tended to average out as they reached the late ‘teens. At least in the testable subjects: reciting sagas in Old Norse doesn’t help on the Central Piedmont Community College placement test.