The British school system

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SALeathem at aol.com wrote

<<School years run from 1 september to the 31 august the following year. If 
you're born in that time frame you'll be in one year.

So, as an example, for me, it was people born between 1 September 1981 & 31 
August 1982. Anyone born in August 81 or September 82 was either above us or 
below us. 

I see no reason why Hogwarts shouldn't follow this, seeing how JKR is 
British, the books were published originally for British schoolchildren, so 
it makes sense that they'd follow the UK rules. But seeing how JKR's never 
said, I guess it lets kids all over the world follow their local rules. >>

Erm, no - they're not UK rules, they're ENGLISH rules. Pupils in Scotland 
follow a completely different (and IMO, rather strange) format where the 
school years run from August to July, but the year you are in is determined 
by the year running from January to December. This means that you can have 
two pupils in one school year in Scotland who would have been in consecutive 
school years in England. I suspect that the Welsh school system is the same 
as the English, but that the Irish system is different again.

Because I was one ofthe youngest children in my school year (born in 
November), I started university at seventeen years old which I could not have 
done in England.

Sharon Brindle