10 year old TJ student/author

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is the real deal for smarts. She was going to UVa’s Saturday Enrichment Program, run by the School of Education & Human Development, since she was 6 so not surprising she’s doing college work there now. In Summer 2023 she earned 18 hours at UVa, including credits in math and science- so presuming earned at least that this summer, she’ll likely start college with enough credits to be considered 2nd or 3rd year. Her grandma was brilliant so it’s in the genes (her brothers are tested off the chart smart too). She likes learning, let her learn.

Obviously, she's highly gifted. All of the parental scaffolding in the world wouldn't have made her ready for high school at age 10/11 if that weren't true. But, there are a lot of highly gifted kids out there and even a decent handful at TJ. She is what happens when a highly gifted, motivated, photogenic kid also has very motivated parents who scaffolded her quite a lot and pushed her into the spotlight. As long as she's happy with all of the media events, time spent selling her products, and her educational path, then I don't see the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is the real deal for smarts. She was going to UVa’s Saturday Enrichment Program, run by the School of Education & Human Development, since she was 6 so not surprising she’s doing college work there now. In Summer 2023 she earned 18 hours at UVa, including credits in math and science- so presuming earned at least that this summer, she’ll likely start college with enough credits to be considered 2nd or 3rd year. Her grandma was brilliant so it’s in the genes (her brothers are tested off the chart smart too). She likes learning, let her learn.

Obviously, she's highly gifted. All of the parental scaffolding in the world wouldn't have made her ready for high school at age 10/11 if that weren't true. But, there are a lot of highly gifted kids out there and even a decent handful at TJ. She is what happens when a highly gifted, motivated, photogenic kid also has very motivated parents who scaffolded her quite a lot and pushed her into the spotlight. As long as she's happy with all of the media events, time spent selling her products, and her educational path, then I don't see the problem.

2 summers ago this kid was taking algebra 2– if that was just parents pushing, then they should write a how to manual for all the parents who can’t get kids to even open a book, let alone take math 6 grades above them and in the summer! As someone above wrote, go Linda!

[Anonymous]

The jealousy in these replies is insane. SOME KIDS ARE JUST SMART!

[Anonymous]

She is very gifted but also struggling to keep up with the advanced work at TJ. Pushed too fast.

[Anonymous]

In America's got talent, there was a 2 year old boy doing Algebra and square roots, so it is possible

[Anonymous]

A lot of the things she does seem overhyped gimmicks, like the mealworms food and “mealworm bank” lol. In all seriousness, you can get mealworms at any Petco, it seems to be more of an exercise in publicity.

When you hear her speaking about wanting to be an astrophysicist she doesn’t seem to have the maturity of an high schooler, a good understanding of astrophysics or even what NASA does.

The story gives the impression of a parent manufactured genius child. The disapproval in the thread stems from the belief that some of these chooses should be made by the child at the appropriate time, otherwise there’s the risk this will take a toll on the child later on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is the real deal for smarts. She was going to UVa’s Saturday Enrichment Program, run by the School of Education & Human Development, since she was 6 so not surprising she’s doing college work there now. In Summer 2023 she earned 18 hours at UVa, including credits in math and science- so presuming earned at least that this summer, she’ll likely start college with enough credits to be considered 2nd or 3rd year. Her grandma was brilliant so it’s in the genes (her brothers are tested off the chart smart too). She likes learning, let her learn.

Obviously, she's highly gifted. All of the parental scaffolding in the world wouldn't have made her ready for high school at age 10/11 if that weren't true. But, there are a lot of highly gifted kids out there and even a decent handful at TJ. She is what happens when a highly gifted, motivated, photogenic kid also has very motivated parents who scaffolded her quite a lot and pushed her into the spotlight. As long as she's happy with all of the media events, time spent selling her products, and her educational path, then I don't see the problem.

2 summers ago this kid was taking algebra 2– if that was just parents pushing, then they should write a how to manual for all the parents who can’t get kids to even open a book, let alone take math 6 grades above them and in the summer! As someone above wrote, go Linda!

I didn't claim that it was just parents pushing. It's parents pushing a child who is intrinsically highly gifted and highly motivated. Even among the highly gifted kids, many wouldn't have the motivation or executive function to accelerate the way she has. There are a decent number of kids who can handle algebra II at age 10. There aren't many who would have the maturity and social skills to be skipped ahead so many grade levels, rather than being single subject skipped in math, but otherwise remaining with similar aged peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the things she does seem overhyped gimmicks, like the mealworms food and “mealworm bank” lol. In all seriousness, you can get mealworms at any Petco, it seems to be more of an exercise in publicity.

When you hear her speaking about wanting to be an astrophysicist she doesn’t seem to have the maturity of an high schooler, a good understanding of astrophysics or even what NASA does.

The story gives the impression of a parent manufactured genius child. The disapproval in the thread stems from the belief that some of these chooses should be made by the child at the appropriate time, otherwise there’s the risk this will take a toll on the child later on.

Agreed. I am following what is happening with the children of the brightest boy in my senior class in h.s. That boy was bright, brighter than me by 10 IQ points (funny how I learned that) but he tried to cheat off me instead of doing his own work. From afar, I know what his job is and also read of the successes of his children. Their successes have been in the fields of their parents' PhDs. And I see no evidence that their widely-publicized eco-friendly middle-school patent has become a commercialized product. Now the son has dropped out of a HYPSM with funding to create an internet business anew that already exists as a commercial product. It's literally not a new idea. It's quite hard to believe there is credible child-directed young genius here, except of the sort of Trumpian type.

I'm also observing a similar situation in my hometown where a businesswoman mother is training her daughter to be an entrepreneur. Lots more hype than actual business. Sounds wonderful on paper. The kid is hyperextended but can keep up for now since our district is easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the things she does seem overhyped gimmicks, like the mealworms food and “mealworm bank” lol. In all seriousness, you can get mealworms at any Petco, it seems to be more of an exercise in publicity.

When you hear her speaking about wanting to be an astrophysicist she doesn’t seem to have the maturity of an high schooler, a good understanding of astrophysics or even what NASA does.

The story gives the impression of a parent manufactured genius child. The disapproval in the thread stems from the belief that some of these chooses should be made by the child at the appropriate time, otherwise there’s the risk this will take a toll on the child later on.

Agreed. I am following what is happening with the children of the brightest boy in my senior class in h.s. That boy was bright, brighter than me by 10 IQ points (funny how I learned that) but he tried to cheat off me instead of doing his own work. From afar, I know what his job is and also read of the successes of his children. Their successes have been in the fields of their parents' PhDs. And I see no evidence that their widely-publicized eco-friendly middle-school patent has become a commercialized product. Now the son has dropped out of a HYPSM with funding to create an internet business anew that already exists as a commercial product. It's literally not a new idea. It's quite hard to believe there is credible child-directed young genius here, except of the sort of Trumpian type.

I'm also observing a similar situation in my hometown where a businesswoman mother is training her daughter to be an entrepreneur. Lots more hype than actual business. Sounds wonderful on paper. The kid is hyperextended but can keep up for now since our district is easy.

TJ is now easy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the things she does seem overhyped gimmicks, like the mealworms food and “mealworm bank” lol. In all seriousness, you can get mealworms at any Petco, it seems to be more of an exercise in publicity.

When you hear her speaking about wanting to be an astrophysicist she doesn’t seem to have the maturity of an high schooler, a good understanding of astrophysics or even what NASA does.

The story gives the impression of a parent manufactured genius child. The disapproval in the thread stems from the belief that some of these chooses should be made by the child at the appropriate time, otherwise there’s the risk this will take a toll on the child later on.

Agreed. I am following what is happening with the children of the brightest boy in my senior class in h.s. That boy was bright, brighter than me by 10 IQ points (funny how I learned that) but he tried to cheat off me instead of doing his own work. From afar, I know what his job is and also read of the successes of his children. Their successes have been in the fields of their parents' PhDs. And I see no evidence that their widely-publicized eco-friendly middle-school patent has become a commercialized product. Now the son has dropped out of a HYPSM with funding to create an internet business anew that already exists as a commercial product. It's literally not a new idea. It's quite hard to believe there is credible child-directed young genius here, except of the sort of Trumpian type.

I'm also observing a similar situation in my hometown where a businesswoman mother is training her daughter to be an entrepreneur. Lots more hype than actual business. Sounds wonderful on paper. The kid is hyperextended but can keep up for now since our district is easy.

TJ is now easy?

There’s not a lot of detail in the story about how she is doing at TJ. I wouldn’t say getting into TJ is necessarily a high bar to pass, easily doable by the typical smart kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The jealousy in these replies is insane. SOME KIDS ARE JUST SMART!

Why do you assume skepticism is jealousy?

Also, there is literature that suggests child prodigies based on IQ and being ahead on standard academic K-12 work rarely end up being anything more than just really smart adults.

It is objectively interesting to contemplate how much is the parent and how much is the kid's doing.

"worked with a chef to create a mealworm bar" sounds very parent-assisted. That is not jealousy on my part. I actually find it really hilarious and pompous. If it was "I ground up mealworms and put the paste into health food recipes I found on the Internet" that comes across different.

The kidpreneur in my town has an app that has "interns". But it hasn't budged above 50+ downloads in the Google Play store since spring. That's 5-0, not 000s. It actually is a good idea and deserved a prize. But it's also been way overhyped.

When the stories get too sophisticated, there's often a parent behind the curtain. These business/invention angles aren't like the Olympics where you can prove exactly what skills exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the things she does seem overhyped gimmicks, like the mealworms food and “mealworm bank” lol. In all seriousness, you can get mealworms at any Petco, it seems to be more of an exercise in publicity.

When you hear her speaking about wanting to be an astrophysicist she doesn’t seem to have the maturity of an high schooler, a good understanding of astrophysics or even what NASA does.

The story gives the impression of a parent manufactured genius child. The disapproval in the thread stems from the belief that some of these chooses should be made by the child at the appropriate time, otherwise there’s the risk this will take a toll on the child later on.

Agreed. I am following what is happening with the children of the brightest boy in my senior class in h.s. That boy was bright, brighter than me by 10 IQ points (funny how I learned that) but he tried to cheat off me instead of doing his own work. From afar, I know what his job is and also read of the successes of his children. Their successes have been in the fields of their parents' PhDs. And I see no evidence that their widely-publicized eco-friendly middle-school patent has become a commercialized product. Now the son has dropped out of a HYPSM with funding to create an internet business anew that already exists as a commercial product. It's literally not a new idea. It's quite hard to believe there is credible child-directed young genius here, except of the sort of Trumpian type.

I'm also observing a similar situation in my hometown where a businesswoman mother is training her daughter to be an entrepreneur. Lots more hype than actual business. Sounds wonderful on paper. The kid is hyperextended but can keep up for now since our district is easy.

TJ is now easy?

PP. I'm not from DMV. Making observations about other places and prodigies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is the real deal for smarts. She was going to UVa’s Saturday Enrichment Program, run by the School of Education & Human Development, since she was 6 so not surprising she’s doing college work there now. In Summer 2023 she earned 18 hours at UVa, including credits in math and science- so presuming earned at least that this summer, she’ll likely start college with enough credits to be considered 2nd or 3rd year. Her grandma was brilliant so it’s in the genes (her brothers are tested off the chart smart too). She likes learning, let her learn.

Obviously, she's highly gifted. All of the parental scaffolding in the world wouldn't have made her ready for high school at age 10/11 if that weren't true. But, there are a lot of highly gifted kids out there and even a decent handful at TJ. She is what happens when a highly gifted, motivated, photogenic kid also has very motivated parents who scaffolded her quite a lot and pushed her into the spotlight. As long as she's happy with all of the media events, time spent selling her products, and her educational path, then I don't see the problem.

2 summers ago this kid was taking algebra 2– if that was just parents pushing, then they should write a how to manual for all the parents who can’t get kids to even open a book, let alone take math 6 grades above them and in the summer! As someone above wrote, go Linda!

Which school let an 8 year old take and receive credit for algebra 2?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year she told the news she wanted to go to Harvard. UVA is quite a downgrade!

I guess the humility signals maturity. It's a luxury belief

[Anonymous]

I always feel so bad for these kids. High school is in no way a developmentally appropriate environment for a 10 year old. Taking 1 or 2 college classes online or for part of the day, sure. But she needs to be in. 5th grade class to develop some social skills and be a kid. She's going to miss out on everything.