Students as young as 11 or 12 years old can, in many cases, start their secondary school learning by "double crediting" their high school subjects along with college-level material, allowing them to get their Associates degree at the same time they earn their high school diploma!
This isn't a new idea. Community colleges in some states (like Florida and Colorado) are currently offering homeschoolers the ability to do this in secular settings. That's the problem. We are allowing secular, humanistic, atheistic, and New Age-biased educators to indoctrinate our children away from a biblical worldview.
Many children are finishing high school early. For some of them, college isn't necessary for their life's mission. Even when it is, their parents realize their students aren't yet ready to leave home for college. So they either enroll them in a local college, have them "mark time" and get a job, or just sit around waiting until they're old enough for college. In some cases they erroneously send them off to a college that they aren't emotionally, physically, morally, or spiritually ready to tackle. In many situations, according to independent studies by Josh McDowell Ministries, Barna Research, Nehemiah Institute, and Summit Ministries, among others, many of these students are abandoning their previously-learned worldviews shortly after commencing college!
At the same time, two independent nationally-known educators (who you would recognize if we mentioned them) studied the educational success of current college graduates in 2003 and found that their academic attainment was equivalent to a high school student in the late 1940's!
If this is true, then why can't homeschoolers just continue to homeschool their children through college? Today's college education is the same as a high school education about fifty years ago! Answer: We can. Homeschoolers are simply "raising the bar" back up to where it used to be.
Parents who see the point and wish to continue directing the education of their children into high school, and now college, can even study together with their students!
Adults might benefit with any of the following situations: Those who have no college degree; those who have an Associates degree or have completed part of their college work; adults who already have a Bachelor's degree but not with a biblical worldview emphasis or perhaps need to earn Continuing Education Units (C.E.U.'s) toward their professional certification requirements. Any of these may want to study together with their children. The Christian Institute provides the means to learn in any of these ways.
It's family-oriented college education for everyone in the home!