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In reply to the discussion: EXCLUSIVE: Parents of underage victim in Kate Hunt's case defend actions [View all]haele
(12,727 posts)These girls had also been dating for about a year before the oldest turned 18 and was charged the very next day.
So, if the original reports hold, 17/15 is not a huge difference - and frankly, depending on School District enrollment policy, even 17/14 isn't really that big a difference in high school. From experiance it might have been only a grade difference between them. The Kidlet was always the "oldest" in her class because of a end of December birthdate - she was originally held back a year in an Alabama Elementry school so she wouldn't be "too young" during the school year.
In California, with an early October birthday, I was always the youngest in my classes - I started my senior year 16 years old turning 17, while some compatriots started their senior year having just turned 18 a few weeks before the school year started.
They're within the same micro-generational scale of adolescence - there's only at most a three-year gap between common experiances and relatable attitudes and preferences.
Haele