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CBS local news reports on this amazing story.
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It’s that time of year when students all across the country will be celebrating high school and college graduations. One South Florida girl will get a diploma from both in the same week and she is only 16-years old.
Grace Bush already has her bachelor’s degree from college but she doesn’t have a high school diploma yet.
“It’s kind of weird that I graduated college before high school,” said Grace Bush.
The teen from Hollywood earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice Friday morning from Florida Atlantic University.
She did it with a 3.8 grade point average and completed the four-year degree in just three years.
“I started when I was 13 at Broward College and I also took my classes throughout the summer, so I was able to finish it before four years,” said Grace Bush.
The institution’s dual enrollment program allows high performing high school students to earn credit for the same courses towards their college degree and save thousands of dollars in tuition at the same time.
Grace’s parents wanted their nine children to earn college credit in high school because they can’t afford to send all of their kids to college. Their mother, who home schooled all the kids knew early on, Grace had a knack for learning.
“At two years old, she was already reading and I was totally shocked,” said Grace’s mother, Gisla Bush.
Grace is the third oldest in the Bush family.
“My two older sisters are doing it and I’m the third to do it. My oldest sister already graduated and my second oldest sister is graduating in the summer,” said Grace Bush.
The new college graduate said she’ll be pursuing a master’s degree this fall, and then going to law school.
“I would eventually like to become chief justice of the United States,” said Grace Bush.
During her spare time she plays the flute in two orchestras and that keeps her busy but she says she will finally take a little break during the summer.
“To study for the LSAT, so I can get as high a score as possible, so hopefully I can get a full ride into a good school, law school,” said Grace Bush.
Looking at the two videos above, I saw several interesting things. This young lady did not attend public school, she was home-schooled. She had a father who was proud of her and believed in her, which affects the graduation rates of children according to a recent study. She was filmed speaking in her home in front of a little plaque with a verse from the Bible.
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She is also African-American: which means that she would have had little chance for success in the government-owned K-12 schools. (http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp)
Nor would she have had any of these opportunities (in the government schools) to take college classes at such a young age. They would have discouraged her from dual enrollment until at least her junior year of high school – assuming the school even allowed it. They would have worried about “socialization.” Does this beautiful young woman look like she is underdeveloped socially?!?
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Given that the public schools are adopting the despicable Common Core Curriculum and private schools have sometimes abandoned all morals, I think homeschooling is the successful third way. I pulled my son out a private school in his 4th grade. I realized the commute was four hours a day for me, and in that amount of time I could homeschool him. Also they had introduced the New Creation Sex Education, which says Jesus was a weak man with sexual urges who discovered he was god on the cross. Gag me. My son finished home schooled high school with 34 college credits and finished college therefore in 3 and one half years. When he learned to drive at 15 and one half, he just took off to college in science and Math while his father and I continued to tutor him in theology, literature and philosophy. Home schooling is the best option for children. I know working parents who are still able to accomplish it. God bless you. Susan Fox http://www.christsfaithfulwitness.com
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The problem is that thanks to the parties of the left and their alliances with the unions, you still have to pay taxes for public schools, even if you don’t use them. Imagine having to pay for things you don’t use at Wal-Mart or Amazon. It would never happen in the private sector, but with government it happens all the time.
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That’s a particularly troubling thought. I’m not yet a parent, but my wife and I were both independently sure prior to dating that we would home school our children. I believe the education in homeschooling is (in general) higher quality, but the thing that really gets to me is not just the general leftist propaganda, but sex education. I don’t want the state telling my child how to use a condom, and promoting birth control and abortion. The sickening thought is that even if I don’t put my child in public school, I’m still paying every year for other people’s children to be fed the same filth.
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They seem to have a real agenda for making kids behave sexually at a young age.
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There is a reason that there is a push for sexual behaviors in children. There are very few things as effective at creating a dependent culture that votes for goodies from the government and that needs abortion “services” on a regular basis than teaching young people to have causal sex early and often. The liberals, and especially those in the abortion industry, have a vested interest in “values-free” sex education (i.e. sex education that teaches promiscuity) because it produces the results they want to see in the culture.
On a more spiritual note, there are few things as effective as sexual immorality at turning young people away from God. The pull to partake in sexual sin is strong, especially in a culture that no only tolerates it, but actively encourages it and looks down on those who choose to abstain. And once young people start down the road of sexual sin, the destruction and fallout in their lives and their souls is tremendous. They learn to want detached sex or porn or a multitude of partners rather than the fidelity of marriage. They develop a taste for ever more debased activities. They seek to fill the emptiness with sensual pleasure. They start to see God, with His rules about sexuality, as a kill-joy rather than a loving Father. They see rules, in general, as merely ways to stop the fun. They can no longer trust that anyone has their best interest at heart, not even God. They become jaded and selfish. All of this pulls them farther and farther from God and from even wanting to do right. And in the process, they will kill their children to avoid unwanted consequences. They will divorce if they do marry because they no longer know how to be satisfied with one real person. And those children that do survive will be raised in broken homes, deprived of a mother or father, and learning to repeat all the pathological behaviors of their parents and then some.
There’s a reason for the many admonitions against illicit sex in the Bible. Because sex is so entwined with who we are, it has a tremendous power to be used for evil and to deeply harm people and destroy families and children. Used for good, sex is a powerful force to bind families together – parents to each other and to their children – to provide a stable environment suitable for teaching character and morals and truths about God. But outside of marriage, that powerful force is only destructive.
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I wanted to say the dependency and the spiritual impact and you said both!!! You are amazing!
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We paid our taxes for other kids to go to a public school that taught them baby whales have more value than baby human beings. We home-schooled our son at no cost to the state, so he’d be free to think for himself. It was a penalty. I voted against school bonds every chance I got. Never won — too few people can afford homes, and renters don’t care.
Now the Obama Administration is out to get home-schoolers. The 50 states still allow it, but there is an ominous cloud over our freedom. My advice: keep your home schooling to yourself as much as possible. Don’t advertise. Don’t answer any questions from pseudo authority.
Do share your lives with other home-schooling families — it’s a fabulous bond. I even have friends who always wished they were related to such and such family, and now they are overjoyed: their son married the daughter of such and such family. They had been raised together in the same group of home-schooling families. God bless you. Susan Fox blogger http://www.christsfaithfulwitness.com
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hunker down? Don’t you make forays into the world to witness at least?
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