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And on this Canadian site it's defined as 3-17, because it's the grouping by age that matters. Students are young adults, it doesn't make sense to group them with middle- and high-schoolers. IIRC adulthood used to be granted at 20 or higher in the past, so it ,aybe made sense then to group them together, but if someone says "they were still teenagers" it just doesn't make sense to refer to legal adult as part of the same group as middle-schooler. If they're considered legally able to consent to all kinds of work, sex/porn, being in army, they aren't "just a teenager".
I don't really agree that her weird decisions were expected or excusable even at 13, but it's all too common for manga to have main characters behave in nonsensical or stupidly exaggerated way in first chapter to create story hook, then ignore or handwave it later as not that important. See for example Takamine-san's whole blackmail thing.
And I disagree with behavior and reasoning being that different between students in different years. Already by high-school your individual maturity is more important than your school year, and the whole "people younger than me are less mature" is common delusion that affects even people at 30-something. I bet if you took 20yo student and 20yo full-time working adult, they both would see much difference between their perspectives, and could both see the other one as less mature. It's a illusion of having slightly difference in experience and behavior as measure of adulthood or lack of it. Hell, people love to talk about the whole "brain maturing until 25" thing, yet there are many people in the world who are already accomplished members of society and family before that age, and tons of people who are still immature and childish at 30.
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