Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-22498334-20160718022822/@comment-22498334-20160718214758

Dimension Creator wrote: I know that nothing was stated about why they all graduated together, I was simply saying why I don't think that the reason Tangocharlie gave was correct. I re-found some information I wanted to share earlier, its in chapter 221 of the manga, which is set on the day Sasuke joins the academy (June 9th - 06 aNB according to the above timeline) and in the time between that event and the Uchiha police coming to interrogate Itachi about Shisui's death (Sometime around December 9th, same year). In the chapter the academy instructor gives out a "report card for the end of the first semester", which is about six months according to googleing semester length and I'm assuming said length is applicable here due to the difference in time between start of the school, and the last time we see the card in the manga, on the day Itachi is interrogated. Wouldn't Sasuke have graduated by then if all it took was one semester of class? I think they take multiple ones, as the exact same pair of kids gossiping about Sasuke appear on the first day of class and later in the classroom after the massacre has occurred.