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There should be some sort of university made for people like that - where they’re learning high level stuff but with people their age.

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Bards college at Simon's Rock did something like this. My friend went when he was 15ish. I used to visit during the summers and while the education was relatively accelerated, there are a host of other issues that don't often get brought up with this model.

Added bonus is they come out of it being able to cast 4 first level and 2 second level spells each day

It’s a Bard college. More likely they learned to play the lyre and sing ballads.

Bard is also a character class in many RPGs (nethack, Bards Tale); GPs comment makes sense in that context.

I think you’d still have a problem mixing 7, 12 and 15 year old kids. Perhaps not as much as 15 with 20, but still.

This growing up thing is hard.

You are so far from wrong, it hurts me to think about it.

Due to having a reading level 10 years ahead of my peers, and already having learned math concepts at least 4 years ahead of them... at age 8... I was put 3 years ahead of my peers in school until the teachers realized the other kids were having none of it.

They put me back in the 'proper' grade, because 'I' somehow wasn't going to develop social skills well enough in such an environment.

They might not have been wrong, but they would have been more correct to tune in the little buggers causing me grief. Or at least let me tune them in...

I was horribly bullied for being more advanced than my same-age classmates AND older children at high-school, placing me with even older kids (with whom presumably I would have even less in common) doesn't seem like it would have helped my situation.

Yeah, no... it probably wouldn't have helped; very much so for the reasons I have stated in reply to Tambourine.

That said, I should add that 2 of those students ended up running into me again years later. They apologized, which was nice; but then offered me the chance to go do lines of coke with them...

I declined, and went on with my life knowing doubly that my instinct about them was correct the whole time. Wastes of skin.

> Wastes of skin.

I would flag your comment if I had the authority. This is not acceptable language for this forum.

Sorry Manu40, I’m just saying this whole growing up thing isn’t easy and with few correct answers.

Most are still struggling to get over it decades later, myself included.

I mean, who can blame any of them, ourselves included. Instead of doing the right thing and setting the little snots straight, they instead hampered our progress all to make things easier for themselves while placating a bunch of children who needed to be taught the reality of the situation, not coddled into thinking they were 'just as capable' (when clearly they weren't).

Quite frankly, I think we all should be banding together to sue our old schools over this stuff.

Surely there’s more to life for the top 1% of learners than trying to get retribution against public institutions. One might ask if you’re really as brilliant as you say if you can’t see that - or maybe you were just early as a child, and that’s all.

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