Comments on: Age Time Warp Exceptions http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/ the best friends you'll never have Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:22:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: JemGrrl http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-14480 JemGrrl Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:26:55 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-14480 I have a mid-October birthday as well, but I started kindergarten when I was 5...so two months into my kindergarten year, I turned 6...so I was always older than my classmates. I was 14 in all but 2 months of my 8th grade year and was 18 when I graduated. I's probably easier for the author, though, to try to keep everybody's ages relatively the same. I understand where she's coming from, but still makes you wonder!! I have a mid-October birthday as well, but I started kindergarten when I was 5…so two months into my kindergarten year, I turned 6…so I was always older than my classmates. I was 14 in all but 2 months of my 8th grade year and was 18 when I graduated. I’s probably easier for the author, though, to try to keep everybody’s ages relatively the same. I understand where she’s coming from, but still makes you wonder!!

]]> By: baseballchica03 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6795 baseballchica03 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:01:20 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6795 Man, I have not been over this way in a while. I'm trying to catch up. Anyway, I just wanted to add that how young you are in a year depends a lot, I think, on region. I have a mid-October birthday, and I started kindergarten when I was 4. The cutoff at in my school district (and in this area in general) was that you must turn 5 by December 31 of the school year. I know in other places, it's that you must be 5 before school begins, so I would have been one of the oldest students in class instead of one of the youngest. Man, I have not been over this way in a while. I’m trying to catch up. Anyway, I just wanted to add that how young you are in a year depends a lot, I think, on region. I have a mid-October birthday, and I started kindergarten when I was 4. The cutoff at in my school district (and in this area in general) was that you must turn 5 by December 31 of the school year. I know in other places, it’s that you must be 5 before school begins, so I would have been one of the oldest students in class instead of one of the youngest.

]]> By: Donica (Blossom) http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6683 Donica (Blossom) Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:59:55 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6683 Yes, that was when the bsc went from 7th to 8th... Becca and Charlotte are I gathered the same age, so theoretically Charlotte should be a grade ahead of Becca. Like I said, ghostwriters screwed that up, and I like to have my own little timeline in my head that AMM wrote :) Yes, that was when the bsc went from 7th to 8th… Becca and Charlotte are I gathered the same age, so theoretically Charlotte should be a grade ahead of Becca. Like I said, ghostwriters screwed that up, and I like to have my own little timeline in my head that AMM wrote :)

]]> By: Sadako http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6674 Sadako Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:15:27 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6674 Donica, is that because everyone got a year older after a certain point? I.e., the BSC went from 7th to 8th grade, so I guess Charlotte went from 3rd to 4th? But if Becca and Charlotte are in the same grade, shouldn't Becca be a year older, since only Char skipped a grade? Donica, is that because everyone got a year older after a certain point? I.e., the BSC went from 7th to 8th grade, so I guess Charlotte went from 3rd to 4th?

But if Becca and Charlotte are in the same grade, shouldn’t Becca be a year older, since only Char skipped a grade?

]]> By: Donica (Blossom) http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6660 Donica (Blossom) Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:08:16 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6660 Sadako, Charlotte is supposed to be in FOURTH grade (she's in second grade at beginning of series, skipped into third, and in #13 she states she's SUPPOSED to be in third but she's in fourth). Ghostwriters screwed that one up. Missouri I think did have an "if you were born before a certain date (September 1st maybe?) you could be in the grade before...but most of the people I knew that were born BEFORE that date, in the summer, were older than the rest of us. I knew people who were born in July that were the oldest in our class... nearly a full year older than the ones born in June at the tail end. Sadako, Charlotte is supposed to be in FOURTH grade (she’s in second grade at beginning of series, skipped into third, and in #13 she states she’s SUPPOSED to be in third but she’s in fourth). Ghostwriters screwed that one up.

Missouri I think did have an “if you were born before a certain date (September 1st maybe?) you could be in the grade before…but most of the people I knew that were born BEFORE that date, in the summer, were older than the rest of us. I knew people who were born in July that were the oldest in our class… nearly a full year older than the ones born in June at the tail end.

]]> By: Sadako http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6643 Sadako Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:43:06 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6643 What about Charlotte Johanssen and Becca Ramsey? They're both in 3rd grade, right, and they're best friends, but isn't Charlotte supposed to be a year younger b/c she skipped a grade? Or am I misremembering their ages? What about Charlotte Johanssen and Becca Ramsey? They’re both in 3rd grade, right, and they’re best friends, but isn’t Charlotte supposed to be a year younger b/c she skipped a grade? Or am I misremembering their ages?

]]> By: nikki http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6639 nikki Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:30:53 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6639 Technically, each state has their own regulations about when children with late birthdays begin kindergarten. So maybe Connecticut is one of those states where all kids born in a certain calendar year begin kindergarten at the same time, as opposed to requiring a child be five by the time kindergarten starts. -Still doesn't explain why Dawn is never fourteen though! Technically, each state has their own regulations about when children with late birthdays begin kindergarten. So maybe Connecticut is one of those states where all kids born in a certain calendar year begin kindergarten at the same time, as opposed to requiring a child be five by the time kindergarten starts.
-Still doesn’t explain why Dawn is never fourteen though!

]]> By: wanderingfrog http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6629 wanderingfrog Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:01:31 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6629 Karen and her classmates are exceptions, because she's a year younger than the other second-graders due to skipping a grade, but she has two birthdays over the course of the series and makes it all the way to age seven-and-a-half, and she mentions that many of her classmates are already eight. Technically, we also hear about Karen's eighth birthday in that short story, but that's outside of the series. Karen and her classmates are exceptions, because she’s a year younger than the other second-graders due to skipping a grade, but she has two birthdays over the course of the series and makes it all the way to age seven-and-a-half, and she mentions that many of her classmates are already eight.
Technically, we also hear about Karen’s eighth birthday in that short story, but that’s outside of the series.

]]> By: bbb http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6613 bbb Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:29:37 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6613 Yeah, Mark was left back. I think he says so in Claudia Kishi, Queen of the Seventh Grade. I'd agree with the thinking that mabe Ducky was made a sophomore so as not to appear too much older than the girls...he is a very visible character, after all, and a good guy, whereas James turns out to be a bad guy. Yeah, Mark was left back. I think he says so in Claudia Kishi, Queen of the Seventh Grade.

I’d agree with the thinking that mabe Ducky was made a sophomore so as not to appear too much older than the girls…he is a very visible character, after all, and a good guy, whereas James turns out to be a bad guy.

]]> By: andreajean http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6609 andreajean Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:11:41 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2009/03/07/age-time-warp-exceptions/#comment-6609 I got the feeling that Mark Jaffe was left back in kindergarten or something. That's why he's a 13-year-old seventh grader. I got the feeling that Mark Jaffe was left back in kindergarten or something. That’s why he’s a 13-year-old seventh grader.

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