When I was in second grade, my mom got her GED. I went with her and just because I had nothing better to do, I took the pretest while she was taking the real thing. We both did very well and the person giving the test jokingly said I should come back next week and take the real test and get my GED and get an early start on college.
I remember thinking to myself that would be insane. I was seven, who could have possibly taken me seriously? Many hours were spent pondering this concept. And I could never imagine it, literally. My main reason for not doing it was peer pressure, or really imagined pressure from my peers. And I just could not shake the belief and possibly even fear, that due to my age, I would get taken advantage of in one way or another. What person between the ages of 20 and 50 is gonna give a seven year old the time of day, especially if that kid is acing classes that they are struggling with.
I have thought about it a lot over my lifetime. This was like thirty years ago, before the once popular TV show, Doogie Houser. When that show came out I thought about it even more. Oddly enough, I never have watched a single episode though. It has occurred to me that I could probably have gotten a triple doctorate by the time I was nineteen or twenty. I mean scholarships and grants would not have been a problem. I have seen first hand that if you maintain a minimum of a 4.0 GPA, schools will bend over backwards to keep you.
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