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DD is watching a TV movie Read it and Weep while she has her breakfast. I was having coffee and since she is in the finals for the role in that new sitcom I was reading up on this actress who has done a lot of Disneyesque stuff. This actress and her sister, who also did a lot of acting, both did their degrees online and graduated in their teens with their BAs.

Not totally clear where they went to HS and both were valedictorians at 13 and 14, but since we always talk about early college, it seems they did it online. Now it works easily for history but I do not know how you do lab work. Maybe they UPS a dogfish shark to dissect.

Can you contact their management company and see if they'll tell you where they got their degrees?

Wikipedia says UCLA. And it looks like they went to a public high school in Illinois - Neuqua Valley High School.

More specifically it states that she first attended Glendale Community College to study acting before attending UCLA. Neither of these are online programs, although there were possibly online classes offed at the community college. Although it is hard to take acting classes online.

Because of the strict child labor laws in CA, even if she graduated H.S. she would have been required to attend school of some sort till she was 16 even had already graduated from H.S.

I was more interested in how they did it. The timeline of when they were acting in LA and their schooling seems that they did it online, especially the high school.

Since we are all so interested in how we can provide accelerated education, wondering how they did it.

According to the child talent agent I spoke with, SAG rules require that child actors be provided with on-set, professional tutors.

ETA: paid for by the production company.

Their online info stretches the truth a bit, IMO. The older girl (not sure about the younger) briefly attended Neuqua, which is a very good public HS. She left before the end of her freshman year and went to LA, where she completed school at an alternative independent studies school (not sure which, probably one like the City of Angels Independent Study School). These types of schools often use virtual classrooms and online exams and provide basic instruction for kids who might have medical issues, learning disabilities, or whatever that makes them unable to be in their regular HS. So, she left the really good HS and instead attended an alternative one for kids who aren't succeeding in the regular classroom... hmmm, not quite as hard to be valedictorian. I'm not saying that she's not a smart kid, but this idea that she was so gifted that she whizzed through school and was made valedictorian at age 14 is a bit much. I'm guessing that this is not the route that would work for most of our gifted children.