Could someone please explain why Ami said this?
Quote: 'I guarantee, if you home school your kids for eight hours a day every day, they’ll be in college at age 12, too,' Ami told The Oregonian.
I interpret this as saying that any home schooled child can be a college student at age 12. Doesn't this contradict what it means to be gifted?
Like my 7 year old she may be mathematically correct but functionally naive. Kids going to school 180 days a year with about 6 hours class time each day graduate in 12 years with around 13,000 hours of schooling. Now if they are homeschooled "ever day" which I'll give them weekends off, that would be about 260 days times 8 hours is almost double the hours per year (2080 vs. 1080) and would have the same amount of schooling in just over 6 years at the age of 12.
The limiting factor is how rapidly the CHILD can absorb the instruction.