wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 07:37:22 -0400, Poquito Loco
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When I was teaching, and that was over 15 years ago, we had two seniors
taking Advanced Calculus by
computer from George Mason University. They would go to a teacher's
office, log in, and listen to
the lecture. They had the same books as the 'in-house' students, did the
same homework, and had to
take the same tests (by driving to GMU). They got the college credits for the course.

I was so bored in 6th grade that I "home schooled" myself. I was about
3 weeks ahead of the class in my books so I just went home for lunch
and did not come back, almost every day. The school didn't care since,
as long as you show up, you are "enrolled" so they got their money and
my grades were good. I didn't get caught until I had missed 30 whole
days (not showing up for morning roll call). When they had the
mandatory conference with my parents, it came out that "not being
there", I was still in the top 25 percentile of the class. I was bored
to death in 7th and 8th grade too but my folks said I needed to go. By
9th grade, they decided to get me out of public school and put me some
place that would challenge me.


I was in one of the top public schools, and I was bored also. Problem,
high IQ, and teachers who thought that smart kids should go in to
government, or some public service job. Did not understand the kid who
wanted to build fast airplanes, cars and rocket ships. My high school had
the highest average grades of any feeder school to UC Berkeley. But a big
percentage of the professors kids went to my HS. Including the chancellor
's.