Parents of kids who are far more advanced than their peers discover that school systems generally discriminate against them by forcing them to enroll in 1st grade at age 6, 2nd grade at age 7 and so forth. Our kids would not have been able to graduate from an accredited high school until they were age 18.
We've been homeschooling and the kids finished their first high school curricula at age 10 so they've been just studying what they are interested in and making a lot of money as independent contractors since then. Our 12 year old cleared over two thousand dollars in three days a couple weeks ago.
We have been stymied on college scholarships because even if you score the highest possible on the SAT, many of these scholarships require a GPA from an "accredited" school and you can't enroll as a high school senior just to establish that GPA even if you have already finished calculus, trigonometry, analytical geometry, etc.... but you are only 12 years old.
Here's how we have pulled off a coup. Our kids just enrolled in correspondence school at the 7th and 8th grade level. But this school has a special agreement with the University that allows kids to enroll in University classes at an amazing discount... and the university has no age restrictions.
When they put this program together they were thinking gifted high school seniors would be taking a few college classes. But since they put no age restrictions in there, you can register at any age.
So even though they are technically in 7th and 8th grade, they are simultaneously enrolled at the University as of now. They had to pass some entrance/placement exams, but that has never been the problem. The problem was paying for tuition when we knew they could get scholarships if only they were not discriminated against on the basis of age.
We don't need the scholarships now because the University effectively gives you one if you are in this correspondence program through the school district. It isn't free, but it is greatly reduced and we do not have to re-take classes they have already taken just to establish a GPA for scholarship purposes.
We've been homeschooling and the kids finished their first high school curricula at age 10 so they've been just studying what they are interested in and making a lot of money as independent contractors since then. Our 12 year old cleared over two thousand dollars in three days a couple weeks ago.
We have been stymied on college scholarships because even if you score the highest possible on the SAT, many of these scholarships require a GPA from an "accredited" school and you can't enroll as a high school senior just to establish that GPA even if you have already finished calculus, trigonometry, analytical geometry, etc.... but you are only 12 years old.
Here's how we have pulled off a coup. Our kids just enrolled in correspondence school at the 7th and 8th grade level. But this school has a special agreement with the University that allows kids to enroll in University classes at an amazing discount... and the university has no age restrictions.
When they put this program together they were thinking gifted high school seniors would be taking a few college classes. But since they put no age restrictions in there, you can register at any age.
So even though they are technically in 7th and 8th grade, they are simultaneously enrolled at the University as of now. They had to pass some entrance/placement exams, but that has never been the problem. The problem was paying for tuition when we knew they could get scholarships if only they were not discriminated against on the basis of age.
We don't need the scholarships now because the University effectively gives you one if you are in this correspondence program through the school district. It isn't free, but it is greatly reduced and we do not have to re-take classes they have already taken just to establish a GPA for scholarship purposes.
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