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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid may want to skip college or go into the workforce and take night classes.

It's absolutely an option if you will allow it.  The traditional 4-year residential college is not for everyone.

I can see your kid bored/disinterested in many of the general requirements, as well as the intro level courses even in CS.

If anything, encourage your kid to start a hackathon competition team.  I bet he thinks the coding club is boring, but a competition team can just pull two or three other experienced coders and then enter Bishop Ireton, TJ, Blair, Georgetown, UMD.[/quote]

Don't listen to this. Truly bad advice.  Any higher level job wants a college degree.

It's best he be well rounded but if that's it, that's it.

Not all HS have computer science clubs.  Ours doesn't.[/quote]

You actually don't know what you are talking about.  Please, stay out of conversations where you actually have zero true insight.

Go to SFO right now and walk into Open AI, Anthropic, and any number of hot startups and you will find a decent number of people working at those companies without degrees (and yes, a decent number with PhDs and everything in between).  These aren't HS dropouts without skills (nor are they the classic Stanford dropout Sam Altman excluded)...they are kids like the OP's kid.  You don't have a kid like this so you don't understand.

That said, I didn't say don't get a degree, however, the traditional 4-year college may not be the best fit.[/quote]Find us a job posting for a technical position at these companies that doesn't require a bachelor's at least.[/quote]

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