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2020-10-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Boy, 12, who was accepted to MENSA at age three is set to make history as the youngest person to study aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech and insists 'I'm not really smart, I just grasp information quickly'

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-10-14 00:16|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 He must be smart as he was intelligent enough to stay away from Ivy League colleges.

Posted by Airandee 2020-10-14 08:12|| 2020-10-14 08:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like terrific kid...I don't want to hear any "acting white" crap from the usual suspects.

Posted by Warthog 2020-10-14 09:46|| 2020-10-14 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe by the time he graduates Boeing will have returned to having engineers design their planes...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-10-14 10:49|| 2020-10-14 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Future George P. Burdell

Posted by Frank G 2020-10-14 11:49|| 2020-10-14 11:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Would Boeing currently be described as having an excess of Ark-B types in decision making roles?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-14 11:54|| 2020-10-14 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I notice he isn't majoring in Gender Victimization studies.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2020-10-14 12:52|| 2020-10-14 12:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Good News! We need someone to Make the 21st Century Great Again™.

Posted by magpie 2020-10-14 14:40|| 2020-10-14 14:40|| Front Page Top

#8 He'll be pushed to his limits, and hopefully be a great success as an adult, but he's missing a lot by skipping over his childhood and normal college experience and that's kind of sad.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-10-14 15:22|| 2020-10-14 15:22|| Front Page Top

#9 ...yeah, like being stupefyingly kept at a grade level based upon age rather than ability that our public school system seem so bent on rigorously enforcing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-14 15:50|| 2020-10-14 15:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Not sure I'd want somebody like that bored, frustrated, and receiving a public school education - when he isn't waiting for his classmate to pull the crayon out of his nose.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-14 16:45|| 2020-10-14 16:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Sounds like terrific kid...I don't want to hear any "acting white" crap from the usual suspects.

They'll wait until he is old enough to realize he's racist then they'll shame him for it.

Posted by gorb 2020-10-14 17:02|| 2020-10-14 17:02|| Front Page Top

#12 The boy will be fine. From the article:

However, his parents were eager for him to have a more holistic college experience at Georgia Tech.

They also want to make sure that Caleb learns important life lessons outside of the classroom.

'We want to make sure that when he is an adult, he’ll make a great husband, a great father, a great friend,' the couple told CBS this morning.

Mom Claire has a Master's degree in education, while dad Kobi is an IT salesman.

While most parents are still helping their 12-year-old children with homework, they are no longer able to help with the complex assignments Caleb is completing.

'Both of us are not rocket scientists,' Claire told earlier this year.

'We had to learn there are other things that we can teach him about compassion, kindness, and looking for good in others'.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-10-14 17:23|| 2020-10-14 17:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Despite all the madness of our idiot rulers there are still millions of good, wise and normal American families, of all races, who put the lie to all the idiots' Woke bullish!t.

God bless this family for raising such a wonderful young man.

Wishing him a long and happy life with a successful, useful career and children who will be raised as well as he was raised.

Posted by Sluling Bluetooth2062 2020-10-14 17:57|| 2020-10-14 17:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Procopius2k, I was thinking more about little league and girls his age.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-10-14 21:28|| 2020-10-14 21:28|| Front Page Top

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