12-year-old graduated from college with a 4.0 GPA—here’s why her parents are sending her to high school

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Fiona Currie enrolled in her first college class at age 9 as an experiment.

Her parents, Roderick and Blanca, had watched their eldest daughter breeze through three different public school curricula in California, skipping grades to feel challenged by schoolwork. As she accelerated through traditional education, the couple knew they needed to find an alternative.

Still, it seemed absurd to enroll their 9-year-old in college.

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