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PA Cyber student overcomes Asperger's, earns National Merit Scholarship

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MECHANICSBURG, Pa., June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In ninth grade, Colin Knott became so frustrated with school that he decided to drop out. Today this young man with Asperger's syndrome is a National Merit Scholar, his high test scores ranking him among the academic elite of this year's high school graduates. "He found out at what age he could legally leave school, and he was counting the days," said his mother, Marilyn Knott. "I wondered if our oldest son, as bright as he is, would ever graduate from high school. I knew we had to do something." That "something" turned out to be the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School. Halfway through ninth grade, Colin enrolled in PA Cyber, where...

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