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> In article <20000819201549.24048.00000550@ng-cu1.aol.com>,
>   connmoore@aol.com (ConnMoore) wrote:
> Straight from the trailer park. Perhaps I should have made the heading
> "Trailer Trash"?
> From the Saturday, August 19th 2000 Los Angeles Times, Valley Edition,
> section B, page 10:
>
> She's Only 14, but
> More Than Ready to
> Hit the College Books
> By MATTHEW EBNET
> TIMES STAFF WRITER
>
> FULLERTON-The mother and daughter sit not two feet apart at a table at
> Cal
> State Fullerton, and it's clear the two still live in vastly different
> worlds.
> It is more than a generation gap. The mother, a waitress, is 35, and
the
> daughter, a genius, is 14. But today the two somehow are closer than
> ever,
> partly because the high-school-educated mother perused her daughter's
> textbooks for the first time, but mostly because it's the day they've
> come
> to Orange County to put a little girl from Idyllwild in college.
> Shawna Carlson on Tuesday will become the youngest person ever to
> attend Cal
> State Fullerton full time. To boot, she's entering as a junior and
> taking
> five classes, one more than a full load.
> "She was my first child," said Cheryl Carlson, Shawna's mother. "I
> thought
> it was normal . . . how smart she was, how she was walking when she
was
> 7
> months . . . It took a while to realize what we were dealing with. But
> here
> we are."
> Shawna, who uses phrases such as "layered contextual stuff" and out of
> boredom slept through classes at Mt. San Jacinto College, where she
got
> her
> associate degree this year in social behavioral studies, will continue
> to
> live with her parents in a mobile home in the Riverside County
mountain
> community of Idyllwild. But three days a week, she'll live with her
> grandmother in Fullerton, taking classes two days and studying on the
> other.
> Does she have trepidation about attending a four-year school?
> "When I was [in community college] I didn't really understand
pressures
> or
> that I was different from other people in class. I was studying. I
don't
> feel any pressure now." Shawna said she might not be old enough to
> understand the pressures of being so young at a university. All the
> better,
> she said. "I'm here for the teachers."
> Shawna defies stereotypes. She is not a geek; friends come to her
> birthday
> parties. She fights with her two younger sisters over compact discs.
> It's hard to tell when folks realized Shawna's mind contained such
> multitudes. It could have been when she walked before crawling. Or
when
> she
> began reading adult books at 4. Or when she balanced the family's
> finances
> before she was 10. But her mother figures the realization might have
> come
> the day Shawna was reading some fat book on the couch. "I couldn't go
> near
> her. She was in another world. She was 7."
>
> Wants to Pursue
> a Career in Law
>
> Shawna has read George Orwell's "1984" 10 times. She read "War and
> Peace"
> twice, but the book bored her. For a while, computers tweaked her
mind.
> Her
> job last summer was to help an Idyllwild man build Web sites and
> computers.
> She built a PC from scratch. But that eventually bored her, too. She
> didn't
> want "a life in a cubicle behind a computer. Ugh."
> And so she wants to become a lawyer. She's majoring in political
> science and
> political justice, and wants to be a criminal prosecutor.
> But with her brains, why Cal State Fullerton and not Harvard or UCLA?
> Cheryl Carlson and her 39-year-old husband Doug, a roofer, simply
don't
> want
> their daughter that far away, or in a town without relatives, or in a
> city
> whose harshness would break a small-town girl.
> Beyond that, the parents say, they weren't aware of scholarships and
> grants
> that could help her.
> Shawna's parents are paying for her education and saving to give her a
> laptop, something she's wanted since she was 7.
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