13-Year-Old Prodigy Claims Age Discrimination After Being Denied

The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 15, 2010

Colin Carlson, a 13-year-old student at the University of Connecticut, has claimed he is the victim of age discrimination after being denied enrollment in a class that requires field work in Africa, ABC News reports. The college's director of risk management said the professor teaching the class did not want the youth to enroll, despite openly recruiting students for the course, according to Colin Carlson's mother, Jessica Offir. She said that not allowing her son to take the class violates federal law and the university's antidiscrimination policy.

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