Fiona Currie enrolled in her first college class at age 9 as an experiment. Her parents, Roderick and Blanca, had watched their eldest daughter breeze through three different public school curricula in California, skipping grades to feel challenged by schoolwork. With few other options, they took a chance with an English class at Los Angeles City College. Through a dual-enrollment program, she earned college credits while completing her middle school classes. After completing college-level classes in math, art, anthropology and more, why would a student finish high school with everyone else?

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Persons: Fiona Currie, Roderick, Blanca, Fiona aced, Fiona, Mozart, It's, you've Organizations: Los, Los Angeles City, Los Angeles City College, CNBC Locations: Los Angeles, California, Blanca