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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I GREENSHIRTED my kid. He is late September born and missed the kindergarten date by a couple weeks. He had to sit through an entrance exam to get into KG but since he was already academically and socially advanced and so he continued to excel throughout school.

Why should bright, healthy kids with high EQ be held back?  He went to college when he was 17. The only drawback of being very young was that he had to wait for his driver's license.

Being a greenshirted kid for many is an embarrassment. Especially when they become the awkward ones who hit puberty sooner than their classmates.  [b]We often read in the news when a particularly young student gets into college and that is seen as an achievement.[/b] I have yet to hear in the news when an older student gets into college.  [/quote]

So you think it's more of an achievement for a 16-year-old to start at a community college than for an 18-year-old to start at Harvard?[/quote]

They are both equal achievements.  [/quote]

That's not what grad schools and employers seem to think. Many jobs require people to have degrees from top-ranked universities. I have yet to see a job-posting that requires someone to have attained their degree by a certain age.[/quote]

Some jobs require it, far less these days than when many of us went to college.  [/quote]

Clearly, those employers have never heard the phrase, "Quality is more important than speed."[/quote]

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