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Belgian boy Laurent Simons heads off to university aged 8.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on July 01, 2018, 09:16:01 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 01, 2018, 07:34:54 am ---but I think it would actually be illegal to a hire a 13yo kid in Australia as a full time employee for example. Maybe would have to do it as a contractor or something.
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There is no minimum age (at least in NSW).
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Well I'd LOVE to start paying Sagan a full time wage, nothing at all to do with tax... 8)
But you can't work full time if you haven't finished year 10 or are at least 17:
http://www.lawstuff.org.au/nsw_law/topics/employment/What-age-can-I-start-work
And young people can actually get taxed more:
https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/investing/in-detail/children-and-under-18s/your-income-if-you-are-under-18-years-old/
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Kjelt on July 01, 2018, 08:47:54 am ---Positive criticism is good but it looks like you all are just not believing because it is outside the standards.
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For me it's not a matter of believing that a kid can be years ahead of everyone else, but in this case broad education.
This kid is a full 10 years ahead of everyone else. That means to get the same broad level education he has to have crammed all that same 10 years worth of information into the previous years (only a few years by the sounds of it). It doesn't add up, it seems obvious that something has to have been scarified to achieve that IMO.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Marco on July 01, 2018, 10:49:14 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 01, 2018, 07:12:42 am ---Ok, so he's bored and super smart and talented, but the usual thing in those cases is to look at putting them up a year. At what point does the school re-evaluate the kid every few months and decide to give him the proper grade tests and put him up a grade that quickly each time. Seems dodgy to me, and I can't see that happening that fast in a school here in Australia at least.
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As I said, I think he was homeschooled (kids still have to take official exams). There's also some Montessori type and gifted schools which don't have fixed grade classes at all.
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Yes, it has to be something like that. I can't see a regular state or privately run school allowing a kid to fully progress graduate at such an absurdly young age. At least I can't see that happening here.
The youngest in Australia to "sit the HSC" (essentially our final year school/university entrance exam) was 11yo:
https://www.smh.com.au/education/study-gifted-children-benefit-from-bypassing-school-for-university-20141223-12cnf0.html
But even then it just "sitting the exam", may not actually be fully graduating year 12 at high school.
Another 13yo kid "blitzed HSC extension maths", so sounds very much like just passing certain subjects in order to get into a particular university course, of which there is usually no minimum age requirement.
Alex Nikitin:
--- Quote from: ataradov on July 01, 2018, 12:36:09 am ---I was thinking about this a bit, and a thought crossed my mind, for which I want to hear some opinions from people from different countries.
How is it even possible to finish school in 1.5 years? I don't think such thing is possible in Russia (where I grew up). None of the examination systems are set up to take exams for multiple years.
How does it even work? Do you need to just pass some combined exam, or exams designed to be passed year after year? Who takes the exam? In many places examination commissions are assembled only during the exam time. Somebody had to get paid for conducting the exam.
I would really like to hear the mechanics of this. Did he start in a first grade and then jumped one up every month?
How does it work in your country?
Edit: We also had to pass PE, for example. Did he actually do the PE on same level as 18 year old kids? IQ won't help you jump high :)
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Oh, even in the USSR that happened occasionally. My younger brother has finished a special "math" secondary school in Moscow when he was 13 , 3-4 years earlier than "normal". That was in the early 1970th.
Cheers
Alex
Koen:
Plenty above is wrong. There are articles about him, about his school, about his peers, about his hobbies and about the experts who help him and his family. There's no need to speculate.
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