grr

[juliet]

13 yr old wanting to go to university

Oh for *fuck's* sake. He's 13, my arse would he "have no problems coping with life at university". And there's plenty of ways to avoid him "stagnating" at secondary school if they stop just pushing the poor kid to take exam after exam. Not to mention the fact that just possibly, if he'd *not* taken A level Maths early, he might have done better than a B.

grRRR. This sort of thing really pisses me off.

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[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I think the 'needing to clear lecturers as non-wrongcocks' angle is just a cover, albeit a good one. Whenever one hears of these prodigies their lives sound indefinably sad - most notably in the case of that kid at Cambridge (iirc) a couple of years ago who ended up fleeing his pushy family and going into hiding.