[wintertime]

I've been getting asked more and more about my position that high school is a waste of time and my recommendation for parents to give their children a choice to skip high school.

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My own homeschooled children were admitted to college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13. Two had B.S. degrees in math at the age of 18. The oldest of these two recently finished a masters in math at the age of 20.

Brigham Young University has an excellent high school courses that are fully accredited, but the university does not award a diploma. My grand daughter is using it now.

My own children had to be certified as gifted and talented prior before our community college would admit them. This meant that I had to pay $400 each to have a psychologist administer an intelligence test. I took the results to the government school, which then arranged to have the children admitted to the college.

My children did fine, but please remember, that until about age 16 they had little to do with the social life at either the community college or the universities and colleges they later attended.

By the way, the oldest is a highly ranked athlete. He chose to study accounting since it meshed better with his heavy travel and training schedule. He also took off two years to complete a church mission at the age of 19. ( Returned home fluent in Russian) Despite all of this, he will finish his B.S. in accounting at the same age as his contemporaries.

[Kevmo]

I was going to post your example on this thread, but I see you beat me to it.

Interesting discussion regarding NEA's proposals...

NEA's Plan for Reducing School Dropouts/ Slavery for 18 to 21 year olds

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1759212/posts?page=191