Tanisha Abraham: A Short Story
Some days, she feels like she’s about to tip over It’s not everyday that a homeschooled girl who’s supposed to be in fifth grade is thrown into high school.
Tanisha Abraham, a 10 year old girl barely over 4 feet is the youngest and quite possibly the smallest sophomore to attend high school. Not only is she attending a more mature school, but she’s also taking advanced core classes, theater arts and photography. Along with that, she’s to be featured on a PBS of “Little Geniuses” that will air Friday, May 1.
“Learning has always come easy to me,” sophomore Tanisha Abraham said
And with a mom who has a physics and English literature doctorate, Tanisha could’ve learned everything she needed to know and more from her mother.
However, the same teacher for eight hours a day for six years can get a little boring. …show more content…
Her homeschooling didn’t give her any social interactions besides her mom and the occasional ‘homeschool field trips.’
“We wanted Tanisha to move to a school setting to help prepare her for college. She is dying to go to Harvard, and that’s a pretty big school. I didn’t want her to transition from a school of no one to a school of thousands,” Tanisha’s mom, Claretta Abraham said.
Despite being a genius, the young sophomore has been accepted and treated normally in her school.
“Tanisha is in my theater class,” sophomore Silvia Kealing said. “ We became instant friends because we both love Katy Perry and ‘The Vampire Diaries.’ It’s a little weird that she’s only 10. I was shocked when she told me. I just thought she was tiny.”
Against Claretta’s qualms and worries of bullying, her daughter has made lots of friends and adores the teachers as well as the school.
“Everyone has a talent,” Tanisha said. “I’m just smart - no big deal. That’s what I have liked best about the school. Everyone has treated me like a normal kid, not some weird
Tanisha Abraham, a 10 year old girl barely over 4 feet is the youngest and quite possibly the smallest sophomore to attend high school. Not only is she attending a more mature school, but she’s also taking advanced core classes, theater arts and photography. Along with that, she’s to be featured on a PBS of “Little Geniuses” that will air Friday, May 1.
“Learning has always come easy to me,” sophomore Tanisha Abraham said
And with a mom who has a physics and English literature doctorate, Tanisha could’ve learned everything she needed to know and more from her mother.
However, the same teacher for eight hours a day for six years can get a little boring. …show more content…
Her homeschooling didn’t give her any social interactions besides her mom and the occasional ‘homeschool field trips.’
“We wanted Tanisha to move to a school setting to help prepare her for college. She is dying to go to Harvard, and that’s a pretty big school. I didn’t want her to transition from a school of no one to a school of thousands,” Tanisha’s mom, Claretta Abraham said.
Despite being a genius, the young sophomore has been accepted and treated normally in her school.
“Tanisha is in my theater class,” sophomore Silvia Kealing said. “ We became instant friends because we both love Katy Perry and ‘The Vampire Diaries.’ It’s a little weird that she’s only 10. I was shocked when she told me. I just thought she was tiny.”
Against Claretta’s qualms and worries of bullying, her daughter has made lots of friends and adores the teachers as well as the school.
“Everyone has a talent,” Tanisha said. “I’m just smart - no big deal. That’s what I have liked best about the school. Everyone has treated me like a normal kid, not some weird