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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.  
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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!
[/quote] Which school let an 8 year old take and receive credit for algebra 2?[/quote]

It’s all a publicity stunt, if two summers ago the kid was taking legit Algebra 2, by now she’d have completed calculus, and be done with high school math. Who knows what qualifies as summer Algebra, maybe it’s some online no credit self paced version where mom can help. [/quote]

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