HS Junior entering college early

gardenmom14
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:33:53 +0000

I think sometimes parents need to roll with what’s happening. Last year my daughter decided to combine 11th and 12th grades during this year in order to attend college a year earlier. She drove her plan hard. After lots of conferences, the school (and we parents) bought her plan. She’s a plain old B student who finds high school intolerable at best. Why confine her there when she has dreams of so much more? I don’t see her as not-finishing-what-she-started but instead as finishing-what-she-started-faster-than-most. She’s taking two English classes and two social studies classes as well as the other stuff she needs to get out and, academically, college will certainly not be this crazed. My two older kids (one a college grad, one a college soph) look at her workload in wonder. It took me a while to understand and trust my daughter’s motivation, but now I say mazel tov! By the way, she’s already two for two in acceptances (with seven more to hear from). “Success” has many definitions, I am finding. Now only if my EFC wasn’t more than I personally earn in a year (thanks, step-dad)!