738-Why Not Skip High School Virtual Classes and Take College Courses Instead?
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Millions of students are sitting at home wasting their time watching online courses for measly high school credit. That's dumb.
Why not just go ahead and get an online bachelor's degree instead?
In today's show, I'll tell you how.
Joshua
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Radical Personal Finances Show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need, live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. |
| 0:11.0 | Today in the show, I want to talk to you about probably your children, |
| 0:14.8 | although this might apply to you, but primarily we're probably going to be talking to your |
| 0:18.0 | children. And my title of today's show is this, why not skip high school and just graduate from college instead? |
| 0:24.8 | I'm going to expand on that in today's show. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm going to teach you how you can help your bright academically capable high school student to graduate with a college |
| 0:36.9 | degree at the age of 18 either instead of or in addition to their high school diploma or GED which can open up a |
| 0:45.6 | tremendously accelerated success path in life for them. The concepts that I'm about to discuss are applicable in almost any year, |
| 0:56.0 | but I do want to anchor them in the current year. |
| 0:59.0 | As I record this on July 27, 2020, we are living in, I don't know if we're in the beginning of, |
| 1:06.5 | in the middle of or near the end, who knows, but we're living in a global pandemic, |
| 1:12.1 | the COVID-19 global pandemic. |
| 1:15.0 | And this global pandemic is affecting different parts of the world differently. |
| 1:20.0 | There are some nations that have been able to beat the pandemic back and they're operating more or less as they were accustomed to operating before the pandemic. |
| 1:30.0 | There are other nations that are moderately affected by the pandemic and there are other nations that are severely affected by the pandemic |
| 1:38.3 | There is a very wide swath of the radical personal finance listening audience |
| 1:44.8 | Which is living in places that are severely affected by the pandemic. |
| 1:46.7 | Now I think this pandemic is having a number of positive results. |
| 1:52.2 | I think there's a number of silver linings that we can observe |
| 1:55.6 | in the midst of this pandemic. A couple of them though relate to the physical distancing |
| 2:02.3 | suggestions and requirements in which we are living. |
| 2:06.0 | I previously recorded a show on radical personal finance here talking about how your biggest |
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