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tag high schooler
Tag description A student enrolled in a high school or equivalent secondary education institution, typically grades 10 to 12, ages 15 to 18, or Japanese kokosei, or depicted as one within the work setting.
note Currently, there is no standardized, gender-neutral tag to identify high school students. Existing options like jk are restricted to female characters, while uniform tags only describe clothing and frequently lead to false positives on adults in cosplay. This tag provides a clear English standard to catalog and filter high school characters across all genres, parodies, and original works.

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  1. hotpodliving 40d ago

    removed "Do not tag characters merely wearing a school uniform for cosplay or roleplay."

    Description
    -A student enrolled in a high school or equivalent secondary education institution, typically grades 10 to 12, ages 15 to 18, or Japanese kokosei, or depicted as one within the work setting. Do not tag characters merely wearing a school uniform for cosplay or roleplay.
    +A student enrolled in a high school or equivalent secondary education institution, typically grades 10 to 12, ages 15 to 18, or Japanese kokosei, or depicted as one within the work setting.
  2. hotpodliving 40d ago

    Refined description to 2 sentences focusing on institutional level and cosplay exclusion; updated note to justify taxonomy need over gendered and clothing tags.

    Description
    -A high schooler is a student who attends high school, typically between the ages of 14 and 18.
    +A student enrolled in a high school or equivalent secondary education institution, typically grades 10 to 12, ages 15 to 18, or Japanese kokosei, or depicted as one within the work setting. Do not tag characters merely wearing a school uniform for cosplay or roleplay.
    Note
    -Necessary for user filtering and precise cataloging. Currently, there is no standardized tag to specifically identify or exclude high school characters, leaving users to rely on outfit-based tags like uniforms, which are often inaccurate or present in non-student settings.
    +Currently, there is no standardized, gender-neutral tag to identify high school students. Existing options like jk are restricted to female characters, while uniform tags only describe clothing and frequently lead to false positives on adults in cosplay. This tag provides a clear English standard to catalog and filter high school characters across all genres, parodies, and original works.

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hotpodliving
hotpodliving
To add on: another big reason for a general tag is filtering efficiency. Having a universal high schooler tag allows users who want to avoid or blacklist high school content entirely to do so with a single query, rather than having to hunt down and exclude multiple separate tags like JK, DK, and various uniform tags.
hotpodliving
hotpodliving
Good points raised here. Regarding JK vs. high schooler: JK specifically refers to high school girls, and the male counterpart is DK. Relying only on Japanese acronyms is overly restrictive because they are gender-exclusive, whereas site guidelines favor English taxonomy over Japanese terms where possible. A neutral tag like high schooler works as a universal umbrella for all high school characters regardless of gender, including male leads, mixed groups, and non-Japanese works. Regarding age vs. grade: The definition has been updated to focus on institutional grade level and narrative setting rather than rigid numerical age. This avoids issues with grade-skippers like Chiyo, characters with unusual birthdays, or different national school systems. High school in Japan covers grades 10 to 12, typically ages 15 to 18, so framing it by secondary school stage rather than strict age limits fits both the Japanese 3-year system and other educational structures cleanly.
lord411
lord411
why even try to define it by age when high school is clearly defined by grades, remember chiyo from azumanga who gets promoted to high school at 10 years old. and i also saw a JK tag proposal which also means high school girl
Osamu09
Osamu09
in japan the high school lasts 3 years, so the age would be 16-18