re: SEC Trivia - Which 4 teams played the 1943 Season?

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Until about the 1952-53 school year in Georgia, school was only 11 grades. You were a freshman in the 8th grade and a senior in the 11th. I have a great-aunt who was born in 1935. She was set to graduate in 1952, but the state changed it to 12 years of school for graduation, so she said eff that, and never went back.

So, it was pretty common in Ga. for 16 and 17 year olds to be incoming freshman during WWII.

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Yep, I mentioned this earlier. There also wasn't kindergarten. So you started school at 5 in 1st grade and only went 11 grades. My grandfather graduated college before his 20th birthday. He was also in the ROTC program at LSU. He was not old enough for the draft when he started at LSU during WWII, as he was only 16. He later served in the Korean War and went to law school on the GI Bill.

But seriously, trolling should have limits. It's pretty low to resort to trolling schools for not being patriotic that had thousands serve, and die, in the war.