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* '''Straight''': Bob is thirteen, but is starting high school.

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* '''Straight''': Bob is thirteen, ten, but is starting high school.
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** Bob is the only one who [[HeldBackInSchool isn't redoing the class]].
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Isn't it strange that we're all sixteen but we hang around with a kid half that age? He should be in middle school."

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* '''Lampshaded''': "Isn't it strange that we're all sixteen but we hang around with a kid half that age? He should be in middle elementary school."
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'''Basic Trope''': For some reason, a character goes to school with people significantly older than he[=/=]she is.

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'''Basic Trope''': For some reason, a character goes to school with people significantly older than he[=/=]she he/she is.



* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is an infant, but he has a PhD in astrophysics from Harvard.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is Despite being an infant, but he Bob has a PhD [=PhD=] in astrophysics from Harvard.



** A school administrator says, [[ThisIsReality "I know they move all the smart kids ahead in fiction, but all children should have peers their own age."]]

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** A school administrator says, [[ThisIsReality "I "[[ThisIsReality I know they move all the smart kids ahead in fiction, but all children should have peers their own age."]]]]"



* '''Deconstructed''': Bob becomes depressed after realizing that he is unable to make friends with the older people at school.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob becomes depressed after realizing that he is unable to make friends with the older people anyone else at school.

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* '''Straight''': Bob is 13, but is starting high school.

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* '''Straight''': Bob is 13, thirteen, but is starting high school.



** Bob is OlderThanHeLooks.

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** Bob is OlderThanHeLooks.[[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]].



** Bob is OlderThanHeLooks, but still skipped one grade (even though it looks like he skipped four).

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** Bob is OlderThanHeLooks, [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]], but still skipped one grade (even though it looks like he skipped four).



* '''Averted''': Bob is 17 and entering his senior year of high school.
* '''Enforced''': The need for a KidAppealCharacter has 12-year-old Bob to the main cast of high schoolers.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Isn't it strange that we're all 17 but we hang around with a kid that should be in middle school?"
* '''Invoked''': A character applies this trope to their child after finding out that their test scores are far above the other children's scores.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': "I know that they move all of the smart kids ahead in fiction, but every child deserves to have peers their own age."

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* '''Averted''': Bob is 17 seventeen and entering his senior year of high school.
* '''Enforced''': The need for a KidAppealCharacter has 12-year-old adds twelve-year-old Bob to the main cast of high schoolers.
high-schoolers.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Isn't it strange that we're all 17 sixteen but we hang around with a kid half that age? He should be in middle school?"
school."
* '''Invoked''': A character applies this trope to their his or her child after finding out learning that their his or her test scores are far above the other children's scores.
* '''Exploited''': ???
Due to his grade acceleration, [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Bob acts much older than he is and tries to get people to treat him as if he really is older]].
* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
** A school administrator says, [[ThisIsReality
"I know that they move all of the smart kids ahead in fiction, but every child deserves to all children should have peers their own age.""]]
** ''Bob'' resists any and all attempts to get himself skipped a grade because he enjoys the fun and innocence of childhood.



* '''Implied''': Despite the fact that it's never stated that Bob is a GradeSkipper, the actor playing Bob looks like he's 10 and it's canon that Bob still plays with Legos.

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* '''Implied''': Despite the fact that it's never stated that Bob is a GradeSkipper, the actor playing Bob looks like he's 10 ten years old, and it's canon that Bob still plays with Legos.



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* '''Subverted''': Bob scored 200 on an IQ test, but he still struggles in his grade and is not moved up.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob scores 200 on an IQ test, but he's failing multiple classes. Despite that, he is accelerated in school.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Bob scored 200 on an IQ test, but he still struggles in his grade and is not moved up.
** Bob is OlderThanHeLooks.
* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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Bob scores 200 on an IQ test, but he's failing multiple classes. Despite that, he is accelerated in school.school.
** Bob is OlderThanHeLooks, but still skipped one grade (even though it looks like he skipped four).
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* '''Straight''': Bob is 12, but goes to a high school with teenagers.

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* '''Straight''': Bob is 12, 13, but goes to a is starting high school with teenagers.school.
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'''Basic Trope''': For some reason, Bob goes to school with people significantly older than he is.

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'''Basic Trope''': For some reason, Bob a character goes to school with people significantly older than he he[=/=]she is.
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'''Basic Trope''': For some reason, Bob goes to school with people significantly older than he is.
* '''Straight''': Bob is 12, but goes to a high school with teenagers.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is an infant, but he has a PhD in astrophysics from Harvard.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob is one year ahead in school because his parents felt he was ready to start kindergarten early.
* '''Justified''': Bob is two grades ahead in school because he had tested out of second grade into fourth.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is HeldBackInSchool.
* '''Subverted''': Bob scored 200 on an IQ test, but he still struggles in his grade and is not moved up.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob scores 200 on an IQ test, but he's failing multiple classes. Despite that, he is accelerated in school.
* '''Parodied''': Bob gets Grade Skipped because the high school wanted his premature abilities at football.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob gets Grade Skipped, but then, years later, is HeldBackInSchool.
* '''Averted''': Bob is 17 and entering his senior year of high school.
* '''Enforced''': The need for a KidAppealCharacter has 12-year-old Bob to the main cast of high schoolers.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Isn't it strange that we're all 17 but we hang around with a kid that should be in middle school?"
* '''Invoked''': A character applies this trope to their child after finding out that their test scores are far above the other children's scores.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': "I know that they move all of the smart kids ahead in fiction, but every child deserves to have peers their own age."
* '''Discussed''': "I know that Bob's still a kid, it doesn't necessarily make him the smartest person in the whole school."
* '''Conversed''': "There's always an annoying kid in every show set at college."
* '''Implied''': Despite the fact that it's never stated that Bob is a GradeSkipper, the actor playing Bob looks like he's 10 and it's canon that Bob still plays with Legos.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob becomes depressed after realizing that he is unable to make friends with the older people at school.
* '''Reconstructed''': Despite having no friends, Bob isn't interested in socializing, and continues his academic studies normally.
* '''Played For Laughs''': The series focuses on Bob's lack of knowledge about teenage and adult life.
* '''Played For Drama''': The series focuses on the isolating elements of it, or Bob's struggles to keep up with his older peers.

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