Leap Year Birthdays
It only comes once every four years.
Every year you all have a chance to celebrate the number of revolutions that you have encompassed around the sun since your date of birth. However, for the unfortunate few they only have a birthday every four years.
Leap-day birthdays are rarity in their own with a 1 to 1,461 chance of having a birthday on February 29. According to a study done by statisticsbrain.com, there are 10,800 babies born in the United States and there are 4,791,239 people born worldwide on Leap-day.
Here at Bellwood-Antis High we are lucky enough to have one student that has to deal with the turmoil of having a birthday on February 29th.
Junior Robert Schmittle was born on February 29, 2000 and today turns the rightful age of 4 but in reality is turning 16.
The legality of leap year birthdays seem to lean to either ends of the spectrum in many different countries. In the UK and Hong Kong, as well as in the US, people born on February 29 that have a birthday on a non-leap year, are seen as a year older on March 1st of the relevant year.