Averted in the manga Black Jack with Black Jack's assistant/adopted daughter Pinoko, who is technically eighteen, but has the body of a girl no older than five or six.Subverted with Astro's robot "parents", who are also sent to school in a lower grade because they're actually younger than him.Sometimes this is explicitly said to be for the purpose of socialization, sometimes not. Astro is sent to grade school with human children of his apparent age despite being a robot with a super-advanced AI.Actually, no because he made an agreement to run the shop and live without aging until Yuuko returns, and he can't leave until that happens. Doumeki tries telling him he can't just stay in the shop, he has to go to school. May be used to set up a Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World premise. Many countries also ban grade skipping in general, often resulting in Teen Genius attending schools with average students.
In some cases, parents in these countries will be served with a court order because they tried homeschooling their kids, and cases where such kids were taken away Elian Gonzalez -style is not unheard of. As a result, if a person needs to maintain that masquerade, they need to go to school. This is, however, justified in many countries where homeschooling is not an allowed form of compulsory education. Probably because if you believe everything you see on TV, Homeschooled Kids are weird, socially-inept freaks.
Apparently it hasn't crossed their minds to make up a story about being home-schooled. It may also have to do with children who are visibly not in school being seen by Moral Guardians as a "bad example". This probably plays into certain insecurities ("back in school" is quite a frequent nightmare from empiric evidence). Nobody ever takes or needs remedial classes, nobody skips years, and nobody drops out. Either nobody must know, or they're some kind of high school spy, or there's just no explanation whatsoever except that kids have to go to school.Īlso, aliens or inhuman beings that look like teenagers will go to school in the appropriate year for their apparent age, usually to maintain a cover story. If a character's physical age is reverted to school age, they will have to go to school again, even if they're Really 700 Years Old or have an IQ of 250.
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