[Magdalen] Chicken pox

[Jay Weigel]

There ya go, Chad. Community colleges are great for the kids who don't
belong in high school. I can name at least a dozen kids I went to school
with who patently didn't belong in high school and should have had another
alternative, but there just wasn't one back in the day.

Terri, the girl I spoke about, is taking mostly college courses at this
time. She is interested in film and animation. Tommy, the boy I mentioned,
is fascinated by geology and meteorology. He is a bit young for the
community college just yet, but we have put his parents on to iTunes
University, which has many free courses from a variety of universities
around the world. They had already explored the MIT offerings and some
others. Tommy associates with other kids via the local homeschooling
association, but since he and his parents don't share the fundamentalist
world view of many of them, that isn't the best fellowship in the world.
However, there are apparently a few kids in there who aren't of that
variety.

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> Indeed. My own homeschooled son graduated from Harvard (Extension) a
> couple of years ago. Younger son Christopher, also homeschooled, graduated
> from Pitzer College (one of the Claremont colleges in CA) with a double
> major in physics and math. It probably helped that both took classes at the
> local community college prior to 4-year college, which was much, much
> better at dealing with students with differences than was the local high
> school.
>
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jay Weigel
> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 11:15 AM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Chicken pox
>
>
> MIT has a lot of that among non-homeschooled students, I believe, so it's
> hardly a fair comparison. It's a school with a rigorous curriculum and a
> stifling atmosphere, from all I've heard. There are homeschooled students
> doing very well at a lot of other places, including Harvard right next
> door.
>
> Tennessee had its first homeschooled female basketball player several years
> ago. Taber Spani graduated with honors while playing on one of the top
> teams in the country.
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 6:30 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> AFAIK all the colleges and universities here require proof of immunization.
>>
>> About home schooling: I dealt with at least a dozen of those students when
>> I was at MIT. Not one of them made it through the freshman year. A couple
>> of spectacular breakdowns, a couple of sad collapses, at least one suicide
>> IIRC. So terribly sad. Believe me, if they're not fitting in well in high
>> school, college might actually be much, much worse.
>> -M
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