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Reasons that children under seventeen years of age should not be allowed to attend a college university educational setting include the fact that all child prodigies enabled to attend universities do not as their outcome stories to tell relating great success and achievement and in one example, the individual, Sufiah Yusof is stated to have: "...fled Oxford University in 2000, aged 15, after her third-year exams. When police found her after a huge hunt, she blamed her parents for too much pressure, never finished her course and became an administrative assistant for a construction firm." (Frean, 2007)
In a separate story related in the work entitled: "Young + Brilliant, Blessed + Cursed" (Hartigan, 2005) writes that a young man of the age of fourteen named Robert Mercer who would: "...easily pass for much older than 14, were it not for his self-conscious giggle and the telltale teenage skin." (Hartigan, 2005) Robert is: "...equally at home discussing Greek history and shoot-'em up video games..." (Hartigan, 2005) the story of Robert relates that this young man from Arlington, Virginia went through a "dark period throughout 2001. He didn't feel normal when he played with children his age in his community, and he noticed that some of his friendships were slipping away, a phenomenon he likens to a rock shearing during an earthquake." (Hartigan, 2005) His mother states that she knew something was terribly amiss when Robert "deliberately flubbed an intelligence test that year." (Hartigan, 2005)
Hartigan states that Robert "is what is known in educational parlance as profoundly gifted, a category defined, by one measure, as having an IQ greater than 180...he decided to throw this particular exam because he didn't want to be gifted anymore." (Hartigan, 2005) it appears that the problem started when September 11, 2001 occurred and Robert, only ten years of age at the time "felt compelled to study the geopolitical reasons for the terrorist attack. Intellectually, Robert understood the conflict as an adult would, but emotionally, he hadn't developed the defense mechanisms to distance himself to the horror. That dissonance nearly pushed him over the edge." (Hartigan, 2005)
While it is clear that these child prodigies cannot...
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