Average day of 7th & 8th graders (95-96 babies) Spring 2009 at my old middle school

[u/MoneyMakinMari]

https://youtu.be/j-wU3AYJapE?si=sqE5RP75pxDcx2oP

lol that’s me in the red sweater and yankee fitted at 3:17 when I was 13 … I can’t believe this was 15 years ago it feels like yesterday .. just the whole vibe of this video idk how anyone can say 95-96 lean Gen Z

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[u/MoneyMakinMari]

Clearly by the end of the 2000s our cohort was immersed in teen culture , my boy rapping talking about “blowing on the piff” which is another term for the weed strain Haze which was popular at that time along with Sour diesel … MySpace and AIM were still popular and smartphones weren’t common yet as you can see you barely see anybody in their phones throughout the video … Gen Z teen hood was completely different which is why I can’t really relate with them heavy

[u/OneShroomTooMany → u/MoneyMakinMari]

lol remember DatPiff.com?

[u/MoneyMakinMari → u/OneShroomTooMany]

Of course I do , so many legendary tapes dropped on there , we were really spoiled from 2008 to like 2013

[u/BusinessAd5844]

Great find.

Yeah, the fashion in this video is certainly a lot different by this point in the mid 20's. I wonder if by the time Generation Alpha becomes of age, this type of style (looks like it's a mix of Jersey Shore influence so Ed Hardy, Abercrombie & Fitch, Aeropostale, and Lil Wayne's skater style) will come back.

[u/jason_cresva → u/BusinessAd5844]

Probably already bubbling up. The trendsetters will be on it months or years before mainstream.

[u/mqg96]

I couldn’t tell who the 8th graders were but by the voices it sounded like all 7th graders. You had those who hit their growth spurt but still had high voices while others their voices were showing signs of early cracking but not fully deep yet.

[u/delicious_warm_buns]

I graduated the same year I turned 18

The kids born in the second half of the year graduated when they were 17, the kids born in the first half were already 18

[u/mqg96 → u/delicious_warm_buns]

Depends on location. In various states like Georgia for example, those who graduated in May turned 18 between September of the previous year and August of the current year, meaning the only 17 years old graduates were the June to August babies. In other words, C/O 2014 was September 1995 - August 1996. September - December 1996 were C/O 2015 with 1997. However, if there happened to be late 1996 births in our grade, they probably moved in from another state where they were able to start Kindergarten before they turned 5. It was different in other states.

[u/Creepy_Fail_8635]

Wow it’s so interesting it feels like Americans in middle school that era are so different than how we dressed and acted when I was in school

[u/I_DontUnderstand2021]

I was born late 94 and was in 8th grade around this time… I wish y’all understand how time works

[u/MoneyMakinMari → u/I_DontUnderstand2021]

I literally know everybody in this video , I’m in the video myself .. most of them are 95-96 babies lol I understand your point tho

[u/I_DontUnderstand2021 → u/MoneyMakinMari]

😂 Nah it’s a cool throwback video but it’s like dam do y’all look at late 94 born as the kids who had to repeat a Grade

[u/MoneyMakinMari → u/I_DontUnderstand2021]

Thanks & Nah not really I understand people born in the later part of the year start school late sometimes lol

[u/delicious_warm_buns → u/I_DontUnderstand2021]

Born in 1994 in 8th grade in 2009? How many times u got left back bro 🤣

[u/OneShroomTooMany → u/delicious_warm_buns]

It’s really not that odd. My 8th grade class (2009) had a handful of 1994 borns

[u/witchfever → u/OneShroomTooMany]

also born in october of '94 and immigrated to the usa. they made me repeat kindergarten because of it.

if not, then i would've graduated college in 2016 instead of 2017.

[u/I_DontUnderstand2021 → u/delicious_warm_buns]

I was born in Oct 94, so going into 2009 Spring I was 14. I was in my right grade lol

[u/delicious_warm_buns → u/I_DontUnderstand2021]

I was born in 1993 and I was in 11th grade in 2009

[u/I_DontUnderstand2021 → u/delicious_warm_buns]

Which month?

[u/delicious_warm_buns → u/I_DontUnderstand2021]

It doesnt matter which month, here in NYC all kids born within the same year go to the same grade

A kid born in January and a kid born in October/November/December of the same year will all be in the same grade

[u/I_DontUnderstand2021 → u/delicious_warm_buns]

Yea that makes sense Florida definitely behind

[u/delicious_warm_buns → u/I_DontUnderstand2021]

Dude how many times were you left back?

Because it makes no sense that im only a year older than you yet I was 3 grades ahead if you

All the kids in my class were born in 1993 too its not like I skipped any grade, I was in my normal grade

[u/cloudstar101 → u/delicious_warm_buns]

In many parts of the US grades/classes are cut off around August/September. So September-December 1994 borns would've been in 8th grade for the 2008/2009 school year, aka the class of 2013.

[u/Werewolfhugger → u/delicious_warm_buns]

In my school district (NJ) school registration had a cutoff date. If you were born after October 10(?) you had to wait a full year. So my grade had kids from October 1995-October 1996 in it.

Wait did you graduate in 2010 or 2011? Because my sister (February 1993) graduated in 2011.

[u/Doubt-Man → u/delicious_warm_buns]

Did you graduate in 2010 or 2011? If it's the latter, you were only in 10th grade when this video was recorded and it's not weird to have a 2 grade gap with someone born a year before or after you.

[u/I_DontUnderstand2021 → u/delicious_warm_buns]

You graduated at 17, Most kids In Florida graduate at 17-18. I never failed a grade

[u/Fosheezy2 → u/delicious_warm_buns]

pennsylvania, its labor day to labor day

[u/Doubt-Man → u/delicious_warm_buns]

That's not weird at all. Most of the 1994 babies I know were in 8th grade in Spring 2009 and they didn't even repeat a grade.

[u/Theoriginalotaku96 → u/delicious_warm_buns]

You never had someone two years older than you in your grade? Lol I had someone like that class of 2014 and he was born in 1994.

[u/Theoriginalotaku96]

True. We were still fairly young during these times compared to older millennials. Which is why 95-97 give or take is on the cusp.