Hell's Half Acre

I see you already had a looooong discission as to why the dates for the boys in school are all wonky, but it still just bugs me. My birthday is 8 days after Sam's I KNOW from experience that a May '83 baby graduates high school in May/June of '01, goes to college in August of '01, and should have graduated from college in May of '05 unless you were on a 5 years to your BA/BS plan, which is highly unlikely with a full ride I would think. Going by that he should have already been on law school in October/November of '05, not interviewing for law schools. I also have a good friend born in January of '79, he graduated high school in '97, and we know from cannon that Dean got his GED as soon as he turned 18, so while he was certainly still a Senior in high school in November of '96, he already had his GED by November of '97 and in November of '96, a May '83 baby was in 8th grade, not a freshman in high school as is implied in "After School Special". The whole thing just really really bugs me. It just doesn't make sense to me for a lot of reasons that Sam would have ever repeated a year. I could probably let it go a little better if I didn't feel so much like I know when someone with Sam's birthday did all this stuff because I was doing it too. OK, vent from random fic searcher over.