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Surely there’s an option that’s the best of both worlds?
There must be dozens of kids if not more entering university early every year. The problem is that they’re scattered across all the universities and thus entirely isolated. This forces a choice between holding them back academically or throwing them into a context that’s isolating and not really age-appropriate.
I’m imagining a single university offering a boarding-school-like experience that consolidates all those kids into one place and gives them a more age-appropriate social context, extracurriculars, and other support while also putting them in a position to engage in university-level study in areas where they excel.
There must be dozens of kids if not more entering university early every year. The problem is that they’re scattered across all the universities and thus entirely isolated. This forces a choice between holding them back academically or throwing them into a context that’s isolating and not really age-appropriate.
I’m imagining a single university offering a boarding-school-like experience that consolidates all those kids into one place and gives them a more age-appropriate social context, extracurriculars, and other support while also putting them in a position to engage in university-level study in areas where they excel.
Maybe it's better to allow normal pace, and suffer a downside of the occasional Gauss being a little late to the table?
The other risk being delaying advancement for gifted kids puts them at risk of depression and controlling parents for the inverse reasons I suppose.
It's not that different for sports talent. Or music. Or chess. There are significant nasty back stories to many of these situations.