Anastasia Megan, 13, with her horse, Duke, in the family's Center Hill stable, has been home-schooled and has finished her high-school curriculum.
Anastasia Megan, 13, with her horse, Duke, in the family's Center Hill stable, has been home-schooled and has finished her high-school curriculum.
This isn’t something you see much of with government schooled kids.
They want to hold her back a fw years and mainstream her.
How did society ever produce the great minds of history??
Send her to LA to plug the well.
I have friends, both physicians, who home schooled their daughter. She entered college at 14. No problems from the college at all. She’s about 19 now, nearly finished with her Masters.
San Antonio College accepted a 9 yr old Homeschooler because they didn’t look @ her DOB. They accepted her after she met with several deans. She did dual credit courses & went full time on campus @ 13.
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I have to agree with the college on this. 13 is to young for that setting.
There’s absolutely nothing you can’t study on the internet...
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There are any number of universities out there that allow students to take courses online. Maybe she should try that?
I am calling BS my son was enrolled in a college class at our local community college also in Florida yes they made me jump through a lot of paperwork hoops but they let him in. In retrospect they probably should not have as he failed the course he was taking due to lack of self discipline to turn in assignments on time. He did not have me to nag him at that level and his teacher quite properly did not.
Interesting point I'd not thought of before. High schools are pretty much locked-down facilities these days (they didn't used to be) where the only adults allowed on the premises are those who are authorized to be there. Obviously, these are security measures in place to ensure both the safety of the students and protect the schools tasked with providing a safe environment for the students entrusted in their care from liability.
In college, it's much different. They aren't locked down. People can come and go, even people who have no reason to be there. Students are typically adults so the school doesn't have to spend resources providing for their security. Ensuring the safety of minor students just may be a responsibility the college doesn't feel equipped to take on.
At one time, it might not have been unusual to have a few gifted students in college at ages well under eighteen. These days, there's just too much liability. If anything happened to this thirteen-year old student, you can bet the school would be spending money defending themselves in lawsuits. Sadly, it's probably easier on colleges these days to just say, "Thanks for your interest. Come back when you're older."
Had either a 14 or 15 yr old Young Women of India Heritage in an evening accounting class and she was stellar in terms of grasping the material and her grades. Obviously admissions didn't have a problem with it.
Try another school....
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Why doesn’t she take online college classes? I agree putting a 13-yr old into classes with normal collage-aged students, especially one that has never attended formal classes may be a problem, for her , as she has been homeschooled? I am not saying she should not be admitted, but there is some concern for her, on my part.
ORLANDO, Fla.- Parents of a home-schooled 13-year-old Florida girl say they are filing a complaint because she's being denied entry to college because of her age.
The parents might as well let the girl work at a bar ... she would probably learn just as much there ... LOL ...
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I'd bet this girl could out perform your average public school graduate in her sleep.
I went to college with a 12 year old. I believe he became the youngest to earn his Law Degree. He was in my physics class and would correct the professor sometimes..
They’ve decided 13 was too young to sexually/politically re-engineer
My older son had to interview with the Dean to take a community college biology course when he was 14. The Dean was quite impressed :)
He wasn’t supposed to get dual-enrollment credit as he was under 16, but VCU later accepted the credits without question.
What’s the rush to get her into college? She should be well-equipped to self-educate by now.