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<p>What are your opinions on this???</p>
<p>I think the mother is being a bit on the modest side by insisting that her kids are “average.” But I also believe that with homeschooling, it’s more than possible for most kids to enter college by middle school. My son did and it would have been easy to put him straight on the college path but he wanted to attend high school, so that’s what we did.<br>
I think the key thing is being tuned into your own child.</p>
<p>I like the line: “Are they advanced, or are we just really behind?”</p>
<p>Maybe we’re all doing it wrong.</p>
<p>“Are they advanced, or are we just really behind?”</p>
<p>They are advanced. There are very, very few 14 year olds with the brain development to understand university level math-major classes. Brains develop chronologically like bodies do. While there are wild outliers, most kids (even really smart kids), aren’t ready for really higher-level classes 10 years early. (OTOH, smart motivated 12 year olds could probably get A’s in intro level English classes at some schools against classmates who don’t care.)</p>
<p>Years ago there were some parent posters who had kids wildly accelerated…like BS at 16.
Does anyone know how that turned out? They seemed happy and normal and were going on to advanced degrees…</p>
<p>It’s hard enough to transition from homeschooling to public schools, but straight to college?
I’m glad they’re successful so far, but with ten children I’d be worried for a fluke, one kid not living up to the expectations placed on him by his siblings or one not being able to handle the environment.
Two of three kids in my family are going to graduate somewhat early (15 and 16) but at least we’ve had a bit of time to adjust to our older classmates, which is precisely the reason we were put through middle and high school. Though the age difference with fifteen isn’t as bad as twelve, it was still pretty bad at first and I find it interesting how the kids were able to handle it so well.</p>
<p>I don’t see the point. It is great they are a surgeon at age 22 instaed of 30. By the time they are 30-40, what difference does it make tho? They can retire sooner?</p>