9岁的高中毕业生

Macro Marcelline

Graduating from high school is a milestone event.Most students are 18 when they graduate, but one Pennsylvania boy from Bensalem, a suburb of Philadelphia,just graduated and he is only nine.David Balogun recently received his diploma from the Reach Cyber Charter School in Harrisburg where he was studying remotely.He has already started taking college courses.

David's parents have advanced degrees,but raising a child with an extraordinary intellectual gift has been challenging.“I had to get outside of the box,”David's mother, Ronya Balogun, said.“He's a 9-year-old with a brain that just has the capacity to understand and comprehend a lot of concepts beyond his years and sometimes beyond my understanding.”

David's remarkable accelerated education began two years ago,when he became a student at the charter school.Shortly after, he began attending school.David, out of elementary and middle school curriculums,began high school.

David already knows that he wants to be an astrophysicist.But he has to complete his education first.While he has already completed a semester at Bucks County Community College, his parents are researching college and university options that will be more challenging.

They are looking into Ivy League schools（常春藤盟校）including the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Harvard, but since David is still only nine,he can't live on campus.No matter where David completes his education, he will be one step closer to his dream of studying the universe and reaching for the stars.

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