When Haley Taylor Schlitz graduated from her Texas homeschooling high school program at age 13, she said she was simply moving at her preferred pace.
“It was never like ‘I’m doing this because I want to graduate early.’ That has never been the goal. It’s always been about where I needed to be,” Schlitz told Know Your Value.
But she wasn’t finished. Three years later, Schlitz graduated from Texas Women’s University at age 16. And on Friday, Schlitz, now 19, became the youngest Black woman ever to graduate law school, at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law.
Schlitz was born in Los Angeles but attended a customized homeschooling program in Keller, Texas. Her education was overseen her physician mother, and her father, a political campaign manager.
“I completed geography in about three months and moved on, for example. It was my natural pace, and my education was personalized,” she said. “There was also a curriculum for students who were right on time, who can go with the flow. I had a lot of socialization because I could attend in-person college-style classes twice a week. It was wonderful.”
Amazing what can happen when kids aren't in the government schools.
