The Genius-Child Dance

Now that the disclaimer is out of the way....

There's this silly dance I do when I'm all excited about something the kids have achieved. Y'know, when somebody wins the local geography bee. Or somebody gets a job or a raise. Or somebody passes another CLEP test. The dance bubbled out of me again this week.

Paul signed up for his first college course. He's taking an electronics course at the county tech school. It's the most basic course, the one with no prerequisites. It's self-paced. He works through lessons on the computer, with their lab equipment, and with a knowledgeable teacher available to assist when needed. After two and a half weeks of class, he informed us that he was getting all 100s and 90s on his tests. [This homeschool mom breathed a sigh of relief and smiled a smile of pride.]

And then
a few days later
Paul came home
and informed us that

he hadn't started the class yet. Twenty percent of the way through the 15-week class, and the professor stumbled onto the fact that Paul wasn't taking the class he'd signed up for. The profs had given him the wrong key-card, and thus he'd been accessing the wrong computer-taught lessons. The bummer part of this is that he needs to start over at the beginning of the coursework that he should've begun on August 22. But the very very cool part is that he'd been working his way through a 300-level class

without the prerequisites

and still getting all A's!!

I think maybe he has a knack for this electronics stuff.