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Kamaji:
California boy, 12, graduates from college — with 5 degrees

By Nicholas McEntyre   
May 28, 2023

A 12-year-old boy who wanted a challenge graduated from a California college last week, where he was presented with a historic five degrees.

The pre-teen, Clovis Hung, is the youngest person to graduate from Fullerton College, the university said.

Hung started attending the school in Fall 2020, when he was just 9 years old and his mother had pulled him out of traditional public school claiming her son was highly self-motivated and goal-oriented.

“Clovis is super inquisitive, mature, diligent, self-disciplined, and highly motivated,” Hung’s mother, Song Choi, said in a statement released by the school. “He is also very curious and traditional public schools could not satisfy his curiosity, therefore, the best option was college.”

Fullerton offers “The Special Admit program” which allowed Hung to take courses at the school while he also completed the homeschool curriculum taught by his mother.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/05/28/california-boy-clovis-hung-graduates-from-fullerton-college-with-5-degrees/

PeteS in CA:
This young guy is an extreme example of classroom-school one-size-fits-all actually not fitting some. Jumping from 3rd Grade (by his age at the time) to college freshman is more than just skipping a grade or two! His very smart Mom figured out he wasn't being challenged in his classroom school, and that boredom would not be a good thing for him. Homeschooling him allowed her to teach to his level as best she could, while allowing him to take advantage of California community colleges' concurrent enrollment ("regular" school plus college classes, with college credit). We did that with our kids, albeit when they were teens, not when they were 9YOs.

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