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I tested out of high school at 15 by way of the California High School Proficiency Exam (CHSPE). I was free to enroll in Jr. college and to work full time. I
by anonymousiam 6y ago
I tested out of high school at 15 by way of the California High School Proficiency Exam (CHSPE). I was free to enroll in Jr. college and to work full time. I even bought my own car at 16.
Both of my kids did the same thing, but today the minimum age for taking the test is 16, so they had to suffer one year more than I did.
- dllthomas 6y agoI worked around this (with parental support) by simply enrolling the local community college and getting a home-school program (which I think had some connection to Wes Beach? It's been a while...) to say "yeah, you're doing at least what you'd do in high school".
- ghufran_syed 6y agoOne of my sons took it and passed it when he was 12, because the community college wouldn’t enroll him without it. We were homeschooling, so we had a california home private school - so we just had to certify that he had completed the 10th grade in our school, which he had.
- alert0 6y agoThis is the route that I took as well. I dropped out, realized I needed a GED to start community college, realized I needed to be 18 to get a GED, then took the CHSPE and everything worked out.
- cbkeller 6y agoI did this too, it was great. I’m sometimes surprised by how few of the people around me in academia seem to have done anything similar.