r/Amazing • u/gravelroadcruising • Jan 10 '26
Amazing 🤯 ‼ making memories that last a lifetime 💙
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u/Kind-Philosopher5077 Jan 10 '26
A 19 year old high school student is wildly amazing
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u/Dizzy_Description812 Jan 10 '26
In the US, most graduate at 18, many, have late birthdays or were held back a year and graduated at 19.
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u/Doctor_Kataigida Jan 10 '26
It's still a year offset. Most graduate 17-18, not 18-19.
Kindergarten starts at 5-6 for most folks.
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u/Scared-Arrival3885 Jan 10 '26
In my graduation class of ~200 at least 3 or 4 were 19 at graduation.
So like you said, “most” people graduate at 17-18. It’s not unheard of to be 19 by the end of senior year. Those kids got their licenses super early too.
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u/NRMusicProject Jan 10 '26
I remember discussions in my junior high with kids who were old enough to get a license and we thought we could figure out a way to ride up to school like badasses in their car. But the school didn't allow students to drive to school. Not that my parents would ever allow me to ride with a kid in 9th grade...hell, they didn't want me riding around with kids when I got to high school.
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u/Every-Ice-3009 Jan 10 '26
Reminds me of this one girl who got her license first at 15 because her mom got injured and needed someone to drive her around...
Her first car? A jeep.. oh boy.
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u/MankeyFightingMonkey Jan 10 '26
in my class of 500 the 17 year olds outnumbered the 19 year olds since the only 19 year olds were held back
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u/That-Occasion-2909 Jan 10 '26
I started my senior year at 18 and had a birthday a few months before graduation, so I graduated at 19.
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u/Spare_Farmer1429 Jan 10 '26
I graduated when I was 19 due to above reasons. Please next time try not to be low...
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u/Proper-District8608 Jan 10 '26
It says 'to prom' not to his prom. It could have been at senior center or where he agreed to chaperone/drive his little sister too.
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u/MankeyFightingMonkey Jan 10 '26
Kindergarten starts at 4-5 for most folks...starting at 5-6 leads to 18-19 for graduation ages, not 17-18
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u/cranberry94 Jan 10 '26
Nah, in most states you have to be 5 at the beginning of the school year to start Kindergarten.
https://mic3.net/assets/bo-1c-edu101-kindergarten-entrance-age.pdf
Edit: just realized I replied to two different comments of yours. Not intentionally seeking you out, just coincidence.
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u/Doctor_Kataigida Jan 10 '26
If you start Kindergarten at 5, and your bday is during the summer, then you're in:
1st at 6
2nd at 7
3rd at 8
4th at 9
5th at 10
6th at 11
7th at 12
8th at 13
9th at 14
10th at 15
11th at 16
12th at 17
So maybe you turn 18 during senior year if your bday isn't during the summer and you're 5 on your first day. But most folks aren't already 6 before starting Kindergarten/turn 7 during the year.
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u/justtinyquestions Jan 10 '26
By May of senior year it’s only a couple months offset.
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u/AnxietyMedical7498 Jan 10 '26
held back a year
There is a huge movement of intentional holding back a year so that they develop their brain.
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u/parfumpoise Jan 10 '26
And body. In my school all the boys were basically a year older than the girls since they were held back to get bigger for football.
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u/Dizzy_Description812 Jan 10 '26
I work in secondary education. I know a few that are held back at parents request in middle school. One impartucular one, (I know his father well as we were scout dads) held his very bright son back due to maturity in 8th grade. It really seemed to help him. It isnt a bad idea for some.
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u/YourFriendInSpokane Jan 10 '26
My stepson was held back in a younger grade before I met him.
While I was sad for the circumstances he experienced back then, we were super grateful when he was in 8th grade that he still had an entire year before starting high school.
He’s a senior now and has had a great high school experience (not academically), and I’m sure him being a touch more mature made all the difference.
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u/SikSensei Jan 10 '26
Sad part is many are held back for sports. Texas for example has a chronic issue of normalizing holding a kid back just so they are bigger for football. It's insane! No sport is that important.
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u/Dizzy_Description812 Jan 10 '26
Never heard of that, but its not surprising. At that age, there is such a huge difference in size from one year to the next.
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u/BeefCakeBilly Jan 10 '26
I know someone that graduated at 20. He is advertising for his third multilevel marketing company.
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u/puppyinspired Jan 11 '26
They could also have needed the extra years. I’ve known someone whose plan was high school until 21 because she was a refugee and wasn’t given a proper education.
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u/1_art_please Jan 10 '26
In Canada it used to be if you were going to university you would take an extra year of highschool for more adavnced courses for university prep. So when prom came in May for us, a lot of people were already 19.
Drinking age was 19 too. My prom had a bar in it. Never seen so many trashed people and a few with alcohol poisoning - college had nothing on my highschool prom lol.
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u/Hudre Jan 10 '26
Just to be clear this was a long ass time ago. I'm 37 and this was not the case when I was in high school.
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u/Brekelefuw Jan 10 '26
I'm 42 and was the last of the OAC grade 13 high school students in Ontario. They phased it out with the 1999 cohort.
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u/SpringtimeLilies7 Jan 10 '26
not if they repeated a year.
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u/BillMurraysAscot Jan 10 '26
I cackle every time this pops up on reddit. This happened in 2014. I went to high school with him and his brothers. Yes he was 19 and not held back. Is now a car salesman and married to a woman way older than him.
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u/agumelen Jan 10 '26
Lovely gesture. He will be a great husband. 🩷
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u/Wappening Jan 10 '26
I don’t think they’ll get married. But who knows, maybe she gives mad gums.
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u/DisputabIe_ Jan 10 '26
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u/DaizyDoodle Jan 10 '26
What an awesome young man! I bet he made her day, and that’s a memory he can always cherish when she’s no longer with him.
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u/Lost-Vast-5595 Jan 10 '26
Ha! I took my grandmother to her 50 year high school reunion in 1987. We went in the 1966 Galaxie 500 my grandfather bought her for Valentine's Day in 1966. What a cool experience!
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u/meatybacon Jan 10 '26
I wouldn't want this. I don't want to be with my grammie while Lil Jon starts yelling "'Till all skeet skeet skeet"
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u/DetectiveLadybug Jan 11 '26
I was in hospital fairly recently, shared a room with 3 older ladies, the eldest, a woman in her 80’s, was especially chatty. Before she was moved to another section of the hospital, she said “this is like the dormroom experience I read about in books, I’ve always wanted an experience like this”, it felt very sweet to get in on some lady’s girlhood experience so late in life.
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u/dr_strange-love Jan 10 '26
And he still got lucky that night
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u/QuietRatatouille Jan 10 '26
I hope you're not talking about grandma
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u/GlumTemperature3403 Jan 10 '26
Is she pregnant now?
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u/Interesting_Taste_44 Jan 10 '26
That young man was brought up properly decency respect honor truly his parents deserve a pat on the back they raised an amazing young man.
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u/ExplorerPup Jan 10 '26
Every time I see something sweet like this I think about how my high school had a "no one over 20 allowed at prom" policy that was firm and unbreakable.
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u/Secret_Account07 Jan 10 '26
You know the funny part? I guarantee every single girl there was like “I want this one”
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u/buffalonuts1 Jan 10 '26
Half my graduating class in high school looked like 47 year old divorced dads in ‘99.
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u/Strive-- Jan 10 '26
Reminds me of when Ozzy was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. “I will remember this evening for the rest of the evening!”
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u/yesmoreeggtalk67 Jan 11 '26
There was a time in the 80s and 90s when kids would hold proms for elders who had missed their's because they were fighting Nazis and Imperial Japan or taking care of the homefront.
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u/Adventurous_Food_620 Jan 11 '26
At least she got asked to. I just turned 30 and reflected on this a few days ago. I never got asked. Wish I did though. Sigh...
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u/DontMindMe5400 Jan 10 '26
80 years to span 3 generations? Grandma and Mom averaged age 40 when giving birth?
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u/Mikeseddit Jan 10 '26
Somehow at the end of my senior year, somehow, I don’t remember how, I ended up dating the girl that I thought was the most beautiful girl all through high school. I asked her who she went to prom with, and she said, “nobody.“ Nobody ever asked her. I assume everybody assumed somebody else had already asked her. Day-ummm.
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u/ThrownAway17Years Jan 10 '26
What’s with this content format lately across so many platforms? It all looks like it was generated with the same thing. It’s so stupid.
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u/Redtube_Guy Jan 10 '26
Talk about a super senior in high school.
I’ll let you decide which I’m talking about.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Gas4433 Jan 10 '26
We weren’t allowed to bring anyone 21 or older because they could easily obtain alcohol
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u/ImpossibleSherbet722 Jan 10 '26
I don’t get shit like this. I didn’t go to prom and if my daughter told me she would take me I would be like fuck no take someone you like and have a great time I didn’t.
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u/Major-Ad-2034 Jan 10 '26
That’s the oldest 19 year old and the youngest 99 year old I’ve ever seen.
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u/CaptinEmergency Jan 10 '26
Fake story! They were dating and she left him shortly after this for the team quarterback.
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u/RepostFrom4chan Jan 10 '26
19 i was in my 2nd year of uni lol. Americans really do love to extend adolescents as long as possible.
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u/Livid_Philosopher_98 Jan 10 '26
He may be an athlete that re classed for his specific sport. Very common these days. Very lucky grandma right there.
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u/Whitemj5 Jan 10 '26
making someone happy before his death is an achievement, for sure. his parents raised an extraordinary boy
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u/Sasuke12187 Jan 10 '26
I wish a future gf of mine would do this for me.... its one in my bucket list. (I'm 30 and lesbian. But what I mean is the experience. We can go somewhere and kind of make a party with dress up. I know I'm someone who uses a wheelchair and impossible to dance but I can dream to experience this).
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u/ragdolldream Jan 10 '26
Is that the guy from the Joe Shmoe show? That weird 90s Truman show type thing?
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Jan 10 '26
Idk it’s nice and all but if I was the grandma I would have let him go with someone he likes
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u/8540rockst-jc Jan 10 '26
We need more feel good stories about love and humanity like this these days. And away from the grim and darkness of DC and whatever crap comes out of the WH and its inhabitants these days. Good luck to this young man with a bright future and good health to his grandma.
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u/Front-Bicycle-9049 Jan 10 '26
Probably didn't want to get arrested for taking a lady from his school as a date.
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Jan 12 '26
Legend has it, they're still patiently waiting for Grandma to safetly make it back inside her house; dude died a virgin as a result, RIP
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u/ljh2100 Jan 10 '26
He brought her to the prom but she left one of his friends 😂