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[gnicholas]

Exactly. There’s an organization called Wait Till Eighth that helps parents organize to overcome this concern: https://www.waituntil8th.org/

[smhg → gnicholas]

This sounded to me like the age of 8. But it's about 8th grade, which seems to be 13-14 year olds.

[gnicholas → smhg]

I heard some expert recently saying he backs this idea but thinks it should be 9th. Otherwise it’s in the middle school and that creates pressure for 7th and 6th graders. Makes sense to me to have the transition be middle school graduation.