Quote Originally Posted by royce View Post
if you graduated from sixth-grade in January of the year, did you start seventh-grade days later or did you stay at home for nine months until it was time to start seventh-grade in September of that year?
If you graduated 6th grade in January, you started 7th grade at the beginning of the next semester, presumably February. You continued on finishing your grade in January and starting the new one in February. As to college, I don't know how that was handled except to say there is nothing carved in stone that says one has to start college in September. Semesters start 4 times a year; Sept, Jan, May and July.