Why I pulled my daughter out of high school to teach her to code

Re:Why I pulled my daughter out of high school to teach her ... by roywiggins on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @12:32PM (#8845636)

> All of a sudden I was frustrated that she was stuck wasting her time in high school taking yet another history class

Isn't it at least a bit more important whether she was frustrated? Did she want to be "pulled out"? Or did she leave?

I say this as someone who switched schools a few times, both of which was due to having a terrible time and my parents offering.

But I had a normal highschool experience, learned a lot about civics and a bit about history and literature. I mucked about with computers in my spare time, did a math undergrad, work in software dev now. I had a lot of support from my family, but they never made my decisions for me.

Ed: And I'm literally one of those devs who was given a book on programming at age 10 and never looked back. But at no point was highschool a waste of time. (Middle school, on the other hand...)

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Re:Why I pulled my daughter out of high school to teach her ... by KatyaEames on Thursday January 08, 2015 @01:21AM (#8855231)

I genuinely wanted to be pulled out of high school. I don't know how it was in your day, but at this pint in time high school is about passing, not learning.

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