>I started school when I was 4 and graduated HS at 15. I finally settled on a Math degree in college (started as a Mechanical Engineering major and realized I like the math better) in 1985. With Dad being in the Air Force, we moved around a lot, I never had problems making acquaintences in school, but yeah, high school was pretty much a zero socially for me but that wasn't why I was there. I think if I'd waited until the 'usual' age to start school I'd have been more bored out of my skull than I was. All my teachers learned, very quickly, that it was just safer to leave me reading my library book as I'd probably already finished the assignment 3 weeks ago.
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>Obviously your daughter is working above high school level, so unless SHE wants to stay back in high school, why make her?
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May be this would be a shift of the original thread (I haven't read it), but I believe there is a big problem in how the US education/getting a job system works for the high level professionals.

In other words, once you get a PhD degree, you're supposed to go to the Professor's job, correct?

But what if there are 200+ applications for each position? How can one get a job there?