Hello!
A question for my American friends here: would any of you be willing to answer a few questions related to the school system in the US? I've run into a few issues with the timeline for my MC, and as I'm not from the US and have only a general idea of how schools work over there, I'd like to make sure I get it right.
Let me briefly explain what my problem is: the entire story takes place in the first two weeks of June. And in the original version, my MC was 19, so out of school, no problem here. However, now, for reasons that are way too long to go into right now, I need to make her at least a year younger, but I also need her to be out of school because having to attend classes would unnecessarily complicate and change the story.
Although my research basically told me one big "it depends", from what I've gathered, students usually finish high school when they are 17 or 18, and graduation typically occurs in May or June. So, in theory, if I say she's 18 and mention that she just graduated from high school in May, it would make sense, right? (I mean, it's a low fantasy story, so it'd be a shame if her graduation date was the most unrealistic part of the plot :D)
For context, as it may be relevant, this is happening somewhere in Virginia.
