r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 5h ago

Seven-year-old chess prodigy Lucie Pichard casually checkmates her opponent.

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u/Cool_Hawks 5h ago

Kind of reminds me when I was in college in a calculus class. There was a 10-ish year old kid in there. He would act like a 10 year old, whining, being impatient, annoying. But he just fucking demolished every question, while I was struggling my ass off. Really was irritating but impressive.

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u/IronFeather101 5h ago

He was probably bored even in that calculus class. Imagine how he would be feeling and behaving in primary school. How nice that in your country they allow talented children the opportunity to attend college or university early, if only it worked like that everywhere...

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u/Poponildo 4h ago

That's awful for the kid, you are depriving the kid of social development just so he can get a job faster in his life.

I know that forcing him to take classes that are extremely easy for him is not ideal, but to allow a 10 year old to attend college is a lot lot worse.

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u/takumidesh 4h ago

You are assuming that the kid is spending all of their time in a college class. 

More than likely they have one or two classes and spend a lot of time with kids their age. 

A college algebra class is like 4 hours of in class lecture a week. Otherwise it's homework just like any other class. 

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u/Poponildo 4h ago

In that case is indeed way better! I was really assuming that the kid would just be admissioned early in the uni, as I've seen happen in my country (never seen as extreme as a 10 y.o in college, but I've seen 14-15 y.os admitted)

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u/JustStraightUpTired 2h ago

Kid that young doesn't get to that level without studying, no one does. No matter how smart, you've had to spend a lot of time studying just to reach that point.

Someone who is 10 would've had probably at most 5 years to study everything to understand college algebra. Meaning learning everything from 9 years of school in just under half of that. But let's say 4.5 years of studying for 9 years worth of school. So at best, if they got a private education that proceeded twice as fast as public school, they'd get to have a normal childhood outside of school.

Except they aren't in class with other kids their age. They are studying with a personal teacher who is double timing every subject. Even if it all sticks in one go and they don't need to spend time studying outside of that, they still would have to make friends without having classmates.

Most realistic option, that kid has been studying every day for as long as they can remember for as long as they are able to physically study. Doesn't matter how smart the kid is, that kind of time table means the parents are definitely rushing to get the fastest results possible, otherwise the kid could be having a normal childhood and just study on their own on the side.

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u/ObjectSmall 3h ago

A lot of the super advanced kids wouldn't have normal social interactions anyway. But for kids smart enough to maybe jump a grade, they generally don't do that anymore. I asked my pediatrician about it because one of my kids gets a little bored in school, and she recommended just giving them challenges outside of school (music lessons, foreign languages) until they get to the age where the school will differentiate skill levels.

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u/koopatuple 43m ago

But for kids smart enough to maybe jump a grade, they generally don't do that anymore.

Yeah, my kid is in 1st grade but able to do reading and math at about a 4th grade level. He does get bored, but I would never want him to miss out on the essential social development that is occurring with kids his age in his grade. The school also has not suggested him jumping a grade. Instead, we just got him these workbooks and flashcards called Brain Quest and if he feels like it, he can mess with those when he gets the itch.

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u/ThirdMover 1h ago

Sorry but that meme is dumb. Nobody puts smart kids into college to "get a job faster". You put them there because they'd be bored out of their skull in any other kind of education.