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I, too, pledged a few weeks after my 17th birthday because I graduated high school a year early. I know my parents did not sign anything, and I wonder if the contract I signed was binding on a 17-year-old in 1973. One of those things one ponders in the shower from time to time, I guess. It's only in my wildest flights of imagination I think "but it wasn't a legal contract, so ..."
If I recall correctly, it wasn't until the early 1890s that the US proposed a nationwide system of grades, including "high school" and I think it was much later than that that mandatory attendance to a certain point was directed.
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