Yeah, uh, chambers, did you get to the last pages? Check out the post by stellation. The yearbook thing has a reasonable explanation. It could actually be the case that it should be to Maker's credit that he is pictured next to kids four or five years older...he very well could have been a mature 12-year-old or 13-year-old amongst young adults, per the not-uncommon setup at schools like that. Still only a reasonable explanation, plenty of room for suspicion, etc. But it ain't proof of what this thread claims it to be. And if it ain't what this thread says it is, then good for the Bucks and good for Maker for ignoring the noise.
I didn't get to the last page.
So to be in the yearbook in Australia means you are in the 12th grade. (i'm Australian).
he graduated year 12, six years ago in 2010.
His representative, Ed Smith, isn't exactly the cleanest whistle in cupboard.
So yeah he was either 13 years old and mistakenly completed 12th grade, or he's misrepresented his age.
Only thing that's been misreported is that he changed his name. He's been Thon maker all the way through.
But yeah, it's hard to fathom that the Bucks wouldn't have investigated this pretty deeply before using #10 on him.
Here's a video of the guy going through the yearbook.
https://vid.me/ncxKThon is either 22/23 (or older) or he mistakenly completed year 12 at age 13.
Generally in Australia, Sudanese refugees will be slightly older than their classmates to help adjust to school/life in Australia.
That's why I find it very hard to believe he graduated mistakenly at age 13.
I'm not buying stetallion's story about his english program meaning he's in the year 12 yearbook.
1. Thon attended Aranmore College in Perth- it is a standard 7-12 High School (State schools in WA are 8-12, although they're moving to 7-12 to align with civilised society). His attendance there is confirmed by his teacher in this article.
2. Aranmore is where the year book photo is from, you can follow the link above if you like and you'll see it's the same uniform (kids attending a state school aren't going to be wearing a tie, even for a Edited. Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.n photo!). The school isn't that far from Mirrabooka (which is a suburb of Perth).
3. The school runs a program for new arrivals to the country to help them integrate into Australian schooling, if you'd like to consider enrolling you can find out more here. I put a call in to an expert who works at a similar school running a similar program on this side of the country (my mother!) who confirmed these programs commonly run as a year agnostic thing (so all years may be in the same class), she pointed out in addition it's not unheard of to accept kids outside of the regular age range for the school (her school is 7-12 but currently has a student in the program who agewise would normally be in Year 6).
So I think you can probably remove at least the assumption he was at a minimum in Year 8 based on point 1, and may want to consider that if his picture is in a class group with folks a few years older than him then it might not really mean much based on point 3.