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

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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!

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

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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?

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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 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.

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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!

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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 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.