Headline: Do you think your precocious kindergartener is ready for college but being discriminated against for her age? Don't worry, the Feds have your back
Actual article: 12-year-old tries to go to college

Subby, you may have still been in kindergarten at age 12, but that doesn't mean everyone else was.

chuckufarlie: alternative girlfriend: chuckufarlie: The parents have totally screwed up this child. That is too young to go to college. The kid is missing out on being a kid.

Change her name to Sheldon and be done with it.

I sat in on a college class when I was 13. I also was too young to enroll, but the professor was a family friend and let me take the class anyway. It was fun - intro to archaeology.

I certainly didn't miss out on being a kid for taking a course I was interested in.

And the Sheldon reference makes no sense given his mother.

Do you really think that the fact that you audited ONE college class is the same as enrolling full time? I certainly hope not.

Sheldon is a very smart guy with no social skills, no sense of humor and no sympathy for anybody. His mother has NOTHING to do with it. FICTIONAL CHARACTER

FTFY

TheDirtyNacho: I believe far more high-IQ children have been harmed by being held back for 'social' reasons than by allowing them to move ahead at their own pace.

This is, in fact, what the research on profoundly gifted students shows - consistently. The Davidson and Templeton Foundations have done considerable work in this area, and often times PG students do better when accelerated by two or more grades.

There's one school in the country built around this concept, the Davidson Academy on the University of Nevada campus in Reno.

Working hard and exceeding the standards is not being "entitled" - it's the very opposite.

/feel free to e-mail me if you're raising or working with a PG student.

hbk72777: People don't realize school isn't just for learning facts. You go to learn to work with others, deal with conflict, improve social skills etc. You move up more than 1 grade, the rest of your classmates have pubes and you're sitting there saying "Where's mine?" Everyone else went to the party the night before, you, you played Bobble and were in bed by 8. Yeah, you memorized the answers the night before every test in school , but now you're 20 years old in a work environment and your colleague on a project doesn't want to do it your way, you gonna call mommy? Will you have the skills to try to compromise? Or will you shut down and get stomped on?

Perhaps she relates better to the adult world because of her experiences. I was a traditional student and figured out real quick that my peers were idiots and my teachers merely babysitters. I never related to anyone until I entered a collegiate atmosphere. You assume that a kid naturally matures along a preset schedule, but that is entirely artificial. I never went through a "child" state despite being forced to pretend to or be put into the special ed classes with drooling idiots. On my own I was reading at a 10th grade level by 4th grade, but nearly held back because of my drawing skills in art class.

This orderly progression expected by our industrial pupil processing centers results in those who can, want and need higher standards being sidelined until they no longer care and spiral down into depression out of frustration. I'm not just talking about myself, but others who I've known who have had ambition and hope beaten out of them and not managed to overcome it yet.

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