As most 14-year-olds navigate high school halls for the first time, Ian Taylor Schlitz is marking a different milestone. Securing a college diploma before he's even old enough to drive.
He was just 12 the first time he stepped onto Tarrant County College's northeast campus an unusual but natural progression for a kid who's been learning at his own pace since his parents pulled him from public school at age 8.
Allowing him to finish elementary, middle and high school in four years time
Not so much an anomaly but the norm after big sister Haley became the youngest person ever to attend SMU Law at just 16.
Their dad William Schlitz said as more families turn to home-schooling amid the pandemic, he and his wife tell them to focus on the subjects that matter most and to simply get out of the kids way.
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