Denied college because of age -- she's 13 [home-schooled]

upi ^ | May 30, 2010

[Paved Paradise]

Knowledge is power.

[Paved Paradise]

You have made the most sensible response I have seen on here. While I think all of this can work well, I know that college is more than the degree. Meanwhile, while I think it’s great for kids to hang around with good kids who have the same morals and so on (and I loved your daughter’s comment - that is truly funny), we don’t get to live like that in the real world. We work and raise our families in communities where we are being exposed more and more to lots of diversity - religious, political and otherwise. Having a solid foundation is great but being able to work with others is also good.

[Paved Paradise]

FWIW, I asked “when” not “where.”

[Ditter]

This parent would never agree to sending a 13 year old child off to college with adults. The 13 year old may be brilliant and intellectually capable but are they emotionally old enough.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

You get a big BS for your comment.

[streetpreacher]

He’s a disgusting gutter troll. Probably has no life outside of his FR account... and his DU account... and his Daily Kos account.

[RKBA Democrat]

“I would expect that most people WOULD expect a school to provide a safe environment for a child that is a student there, just as day-care businesses are expected to.”

There is a difference providing a safe environment (i.e. adequate lighting, adequate security, barricading open holes, etc.) and providing personal supervision. A community college should provide a safe environment, as should any facility. Personal supervision on the other hand is not something that I think people who are planning to send their kids to a college really expect. Especially a community college where the kids aren’t there overnight.

The irony is that very young people attending college is already reasonably common in other parts of the country. Such as in my home state of Virginia. Home education is very popular here and has been for some time, so community college enrollment for very young people is a bridge that has already been crossed.

I think age 11 has been about the youngest here in Virginia. And there are several hundred kids who are dual enrolled across the Commonwealth. I doubt that a 13 year old attending college would even raise an issue here.

[aberaussie]

Thank you! Like I said, I don’t know the girl. It was never a goal for us to have our kids go to college real early. My first son needed to start at 15 - we did not have anything else to offer him - nor did public school. He took the entrance test and placed right into pre-calculus. He is in grad school at Stanford now. Dual-enrollment was a wonderful thing for him!

[Paved Paradise]

Good for him. For whatever it’s worth, I had a lovely young man tutor me for a couple of semesters (chemistry and biology). He is brilliant. Meanwhile, while in my chemistry class, I had to listen to my lab group go on and on about how homeschooled kids are weird, odd and don’t fit in, which I do not believe. Now, don’t get me wrong, I do believe that some do have a hard time adapting (one of my friends’ kids are not doing very well, I’m afraid to say but time is key). Anyway, I tried to make my points but they wouldn’t give an inch. Meanwhile, I told my tutor about it and he said he gets so ticked off that people think that. I told him that I think what some of these young people do is that because the homeschooled kids often have strong morals and standards that because they won’t laugh at a vulgar joke or participate in vulgar activities, the other kids think they are unsocial. He got a big smile on his face and he said that this has happened to him many times. It is not always easy when you are the only one in the room.

Anyway, gave a great day. I’m spending way too much time on FR while I’m trying to get several assignments done in my own classes.

[Star Traveler]

LOL ... I guess you haven’t read my posts before, where I post exclusively on Free Republic and have done so for over ten years here ... :-)

But, I see that’s a typical ploy here among some posters on Free Republic... they use the definition of troll, DU poster, Daily Kos, etc., and etc. to mean “anyone who doesn’t agree with me” ... LOL ...

Nothing new there ... :-)

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Enjoy Memorial Day, and remember to ask your friends to remember those who gave all that we might be free.

Been down at the cemetery today, already, and at the one where our family is at (also some veterans, too), there are probably over a thousand flags placed all over the cemetery, and there are flowers on just about every grave around and it's packed with people. They've got a military section there, too (it's Floral Haven, between Tulsa and Broken Arrow) and it's a fairly large one.

This is the military section (the center of it ...)

There are a lot of other people, too, remembering their loved ones ... and the many sacrifices made ... :-)

I don't know if I can get the pictures that I took of the thousands of flags there uploaded or not, but if I can I can post them ... I've gotta run and go to a couple of other ones, too... so be back later...

[streetpreacher]

No, it’s just that no one on the right makes disgusting ill-informed irrational attacks on home schooling as a movement. You have a leftist trait and argue accordingly.

[streetpreacher]

“BUT, the “comeback” from the “homeschoolers” is that they are “developmentally advanced” — so you carry that forward and that basically means that it’s “legitimate” for 14-year old homeschoolers to have sex with 20-24 year old boys in the university.”

He’s a vile disgusting idiot as the above amply demonstrates. Your reply is probably the most fitting for his intellectual capacity.

[streetpreacher]

Not to mention the obvious sexual perversion that enabled him to fantasize about 14-year-olds.

[streetpreacher]

“ST, why is your mind so in the gutter? Your posts on this thread do nothing other than demonstrate a very warped, twisted view of college students, their behavior as a whole, homeschoolers, and your past, as revealed in your own posts about YOUR college life.”

Which leads one to wonder what exactly he would do with a 14-year-old if circumstances were favorable? I mean he obviously believes that those older students will bite if given the apple. He must have good reason to think this.

Projection much?

[metmom]

Projection very much.

That’s the kind of person I’d want my 13 or 14 year old to NOT meet in community college.

Looks like someone is warning people about the likes of himself.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

No, it’s just that no one on the right makes disgusting ill-informed irrational attacks on home schooling as a movement. You have a leftist trait and argue accordingly.

I think you're not reading very well ... LOL ... if you go back and take a look, you'll see that I support homeschooling. I guess you missed that one ... :-)

If you need me to reference the post on here, let me know and I'll get it for you ...

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Not to mention the obvious sexual perversion that enabled him to fantasize about 14-year-olds.

Well, I know that there may be some who are in that category, but pointing out that this is the kind of culture and/or mentality which one will run into -- in that environment -- does not indicate the preference of the poster ... :-) ... sorry to disappoint you ...

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Which leads one to wonder what exactly he would do with a 14-year-old if circumstances were favorable? I mean he obviously believes that those older students will bite if given the apple. He must have good reason to think this.

Well, I'm not about to send a 14-year old girl into that environment -- but I see that others are willing to do so ... :-)

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Projection much?

Ummmm..., I think you may definitely be engaging in that ... :-)