[momtothree]

I would like one of the FR’s to please correct me if I am wrong but an I.Q. of 149 doesn’t make her a genius. Is she gifted/talented? Yes, absolutely but she’s not a prodigy. Let her enjoy her high school years before attending a college. IMHO.

[Constitution Day]

She certainly sounds smart. It’s a pity her parents didn’t know how to spell “Autumn”...

[Puppage]

Can a racist lawsuit be in the near future?

[silverleaf]

http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/2006/03/autum-ashante-child-prodigy-or.html

A child homeschooled by a virulent rasist who apparently has not provided all the requested “documentation” of her test/claimed IQ scores etc to the University?

Are not college acceptances “provisional” upon receipt of all background materials requested?

Hmm. I smell “civil rights” lawsuit and payola. Not to mention papa bankrolling all those “donated” tuition funds.

[Mobties]

What’s that, you say? Automne Enchanté?

Can’t you just see the queue of sleazy tort lawyers, business cards in hand, competing to he’p this “victim” and her family from the Bronx? Scores of TV sound trucks too, and a loud rally headed by Rev’ren’ Sharpton. Why, I’m sure there’s plenty of room for cameo roles for Shumer, Obama, Rangel, and Weiner. This story reads like “Bonfire of the Vanities Redux”.

Tom Wolfe should be demanding royalties if this story stays on its predictable course.

[Polybius]

"I'm fed up. They have insulted us and the work that we've put in," he added. "I'm not sure I want her to be involved with an institution that treats her like that."

I don't know what the exact concerns of the university are in this case. I can think of an entire laundry list of concerns that have nothing to do with I.Q. However, it sounds like the university is data driven and Dad is driven purely by emotion and a sense of entitlement.

Home schooling can take many different forms that can either broaden or restrict the exposure to the world outside of the nuclear family. Our home school in middle school consisted on my hiring a very good teacher with high academic and discipline standards (which included a strong, non-denominational religious curriculum - we are Catholic and she was Baptist). Once set up, other families flocked to our home school with other parents helping with the curriculum. A retired engineer, for example, helped teach math.

The bottom line is that our children were exposed to more than just our nuclear family quirks.

From the way Dad sounds and acts, I can imagine that one concern that the university might have in this particular case is:

[jpsb]

I trust IQ tests to measure intelligence about as much as I trust climate models to predict climate.

[Macoozie]

Apply to The Bronx High School of Science. Potentially more academically rigorous than anything at UConn.

NY City’s immigrant population is a GOLDMINE of the future best & brightest from around the world. BHS of S is gem polisher for that mine.

Genius huh? Apply there, can’t get in? you ain’t no genius.

[Macoozie]

Apply to The Bronx High School of Science. Potentially more academically rigorous than anything at UConn.

NY City’s immigrant population is a GOLDMINE of the future best & brightest from around the world. BHS of S is gem polisher for that mine.

Genius huh? Apply there, can’t get in? you ain’t no genius.

[wintertime]

Our family went through this.

My kids were accepted to community college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13. Getting accepted there was a long trial of bureaucratic hoop jumping by itself.

Then when the kids were 15, 14, and 13 we moved to a new state. Getting the younger two re-enrolled in college was definitely not straight forward even with having many of the general college courses completed and near perfect grade point averages. The state university, at first rejected the 14 year old but a few days before classes were to start they called and said they had changed their minds. She could attend. The youngest ( 13) was accepted to the community college.

In the end, the law stated that anyone with 30 community college or college credits would automatically be accepted by the state university. The older girl decided to finish her few remaining general courses at the community college, and the younger did her’s by attending community college and one year at a very expensive private college. The two girls both finished B.S. degrees in mathematics at the state university at the age of 18.

Honestly....Charles Murray is right. We should dump college for most people and move toward qualifying exams. Nearly everything the girls learned could have been put on the Internet, except for the lab courses. The quality would likely be better, as well. They could likely have finished sooner that they did, as well, and moved on to graduate school and an even earlier age.

[longtermmemmory]

many of these so called prodegies which go to college at a super young age are just the product of stage parents who push the lower school teachers around for good grades.