There is an obvious advantage today for a young person with inter-personal communication skills. Our electronic devices have discouraged face-to-face communication, and people of all ages have lost the ability to talk directly to another person.
Many of the tasks we were trained to complete are now utterly useless, thanks to the tools we have today. I never learned how to prepare a team of horses for farm work or do calculations on a slide rule, either.
One of my coworkers's daughter recently earned her college Associates degree- the week before she graduated from high school! Advanced Placement classes allowed her to take virtually all college credit classes through the local community college while she also bore the burden of her normal high school work. And, it cost her parents no tuition at all! I'm not sure that rushing your life by two years is always great, it certainly is not for everyone. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot those first two years away at college.
I think what we really have to worry about is the chasm between the two ends of the spectrum. Those who work to take the AP courses and get college credit will do well in whatever they choose to do later in life. Those who take the average path and can communicate with adults to determine the requirements for advancement will be fine. The children not pushed to compete by inattentive parents with many distractions will struggle to keep up, at best.
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