Posted on 05/21/2023 12:33:50 PM PDT by DFG
At 7, Clovis Hung was bored with second grade.
“I wanted more of a challenge,” he said.
In 2019, his mother, Song Choi, pulled him out of second grade and began homeschooling him. A year later, when he was 9, he also enrolled in Fullerton College.
“My husband and two daughters said I was crazy,” said Choi, who’s worked as a tutor for more than 20 years. “But I trust my instinct. I know he is a very unique child because he's very curious and intelligent.”
With his mom at his side, Clovis attended classes. At one point, he was taking 11 units, the maximum allowed for students in the special admit program — which provides a “taste” of college by allowing them to simultaneously enroll in classes while attending high school. The program is free for California residents.
“My mom wanted me to go with the professionals,” Clovis said Friday afternoon in between studying for his final exams. “I went to Fullerton College and took one class to try, and then I found that I liked it. So I started taking more classes.”
Now 12, Clovis is set to graduate Saturday with the 2023 class at Fullerton College — with the distinction of being the youngest person in the college’s 108-year history to receive a degree. But he’s not just receiving one.
“In the end, I will graduate with five associate degrees,” he said. “I feel really proud of myself for all three years of hard work.”
Clovis will graduate with associate of arts degrees in history, social sciences, social behavior and self-development, arts and human expression, and science and mathematics.
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I’ve taken a couple of classes at Fullerton College, which is about three miles from where I live.
I'll take it. :)
Five Associates Degrees. Well, congratulations.
BUT that is likely less content than what was typically mastered by someone who graduated 8th grade in 1910.
Still, this graduate needs to stay away from the woke crowd. They would try to kill him, or tell him that he is a girl.
Or both.
He doesn’t have the politically correct skin pigmentation to be accepted into any Ivy League University.
The kid should go into medicine or engineering. Too much talent to not utilize. It’s those people who will be pulling the cart on behalf of the rest of us. His parents should Neve have to worry about tuition bills but what do I know?
What if the kid doesn’t want to? Fine by me. My brilliant grand-nephew needs to get specialized schooling. Hanging around ‘normal’ average kids will make him behave in a way to fit in. Plenty of time for that afterwards. He’s a bit autistic too. Socially funny. He could save the world or destroy it. You’ll see , not me. I’ll be gone.
No. Mom is Chinese. They are that way. That is why they do so well in school ha they are universities limit their numbers. They show up their “minority” students.
LOL, majorly Hung.
Wonderful kid, will be interesting to see where he goes from here.
When I was 12-years-old, I was busy watching re-runs of Gilligan’s Island.
Next year.
It’s better than Vagilene or some made up pseudo-ethnic name.
I only have 2. And a few cerficates. I was way beyond 12 when I got them. Wow.
Good job kiddo!
Yeah, I mean, 5 AA’s in 3 years for a 9-12 year old. It’s not like he was distracted by women or booze.
/Sarc tag needed?
not buying it!
Maybe there is some hope for our nation’s future.
But this is also why the ultimate overachievers are almost always Asians, because they don't see childhood as "having fun and trying things out," but working as hard as jigoku to get to the top of whatever it is you are aiming for, as fast as possible, before someone else gets there.
AAs
What a rip.
Forgot the co pilot bang ding ow
That’s incredible and wish him well.
the youngest to graduate or the youngest to graduate with five degrees?
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