Where did you see in the article that the parents want their daughter to go to community college so that she can “make friends?” Who said anything about “making friends?” This is about taking college courses.
I went to a community college starting around age 18-19, and I wasn’t there to socialize. I went to my classes each day and then left.
In our state, homeschoolers typically begin dual-credit community college courses (or sometimes courses at universities) between the ages of 13 and 15. I have a 14yo son, and we’re looking into it now.
These young students already have friends. They don’t want to go to college to socialize. They’re going for a headstart in their college education.
My concern has always been the subject matter covered in class by a professor. To try it out, at 13, my son enrolled with me into an open class at the CC for five weeks; he was the only “kid” there. He handled it well. Parents who are concerned simply need to pick the subject carefully.
I suppose that since most people seem to think going to school is about education, it just goes to follow.
It's apparently beyond some people's comprehension that kids might actually want to go to college to learn something, you know, get an education for example.
I went to a community college starting around age 18-19, and I wasn’t there to socialize. I went to my classes each day and then left.
I don't know about your total experience in college/university, but like I was saying in another post, there was a formula (told to me) that about three to maybe four hours of additional time spent on course work and study for every one credit hour of class time.
It could vary from class to class, but you'll have group projects, where you'll have to get together with others to do some group work, and then you'll have lab time in some classes, you'll have library time, and then you'll have some people you'll get together with and share notes and work together on covering the subject matter. Sometimes you'll help someone else, and sometimes they'll help you (different people with different classes). You'll have down-time between classes, you'll also have (sometimes, and depending on how your courses are spread out) lunches and then dinners there. You may end up spending libary time, quite frequently) until 11 PM at night. I think the one at Oregon State went to midnight, if I remember correctly, and for good reason, too.
As far as "socializing" -- that would be part and parcel of the normal interaction you would have in doing those various things, for all your class work and class time. Any other "additional socializing" would be something, yet again, outside of your normal interactions with students during the many different university activities and classes.
For all the university work that I did, there was never a single time in any single quarter where I could ever just "go to class and leave after class" (and that was it). That would be impossible.
And depending on how many quarter hours you had, you could end up almost "living at the university" (even if you didn't). I remember one time I was taking about 24 quarter hours... hoo-boy! .... :-) You might as well "camp out" at the university, if that was the case.