Some can sail over high school

My son is basically skipping high school. We enrolled him at the local University as a non-degree seeking student. He is only taking 1 course at the high school and will "drop out" when he turns 16. He will then take the GED and reapply at the U as a degree seeking student. There should not be any problem; he took the ACT when he was 14 and scored well. As long as he gets a descent score on his GED he should be fine.

My daughter started with in middle school with Honors Spanish I and II and Algebra, physical science, english...

So this got her into HS with her foreign language requirements done, and she was into the third year of math and science. Finished a couple of semesters of Advanced placement classes (English, History, Chemistry...a few others) so some of her HS classes were good for college credit.

After two years at HS, she joint-enrolled into the local college, and so went to college for her classes there (full time) while using the college classes as HS credit.

Graduated from HS last year (after one year in college and with 38 credit hours) 3 years after middle school. So she's now a junior at college while her "elementray school calender year class" has yet to start their senior year in high school.

Takes interest and dedication (which she has!) but it was better (she says) than being bored in high school.

It worked REAL WELL for her (your kids may be different) - so if anybody wants more info, free-email me.

(PS: Jean LOVED the idea of sleeping in to go to a 10:30 college class twice a week (and get REAL credit!) rather than a five day 1 hour HS class ..... just to get a HS piece of paper that would (two years later) allow her to take the same college class.)

Even working hard in an AP high school class only permits you to take an AP test that might be good enough to let you get college credit for one or two semesters.

She says her college classes for real credit from a real prof. were easier than the HS AP classes anyway, since they weren't trying to teach "everything" that "might" be asked on the AP test. Much less pressure that way.

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