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Morgan Blubaugh, a Rappahannock County resident, has been a student at Lord Fairfax Community College (LFCC) since his junior year in high school, completing 54 credit hours in two years.
Blubaugh, a high school senior at Rappahannock County High School, will graduate in June and transfer to Marshall University in the fall, taking with him a wealth of collegiate courses and experiences.
Blubaugh began taking classes at LFCC when his brother needed to complete a course for a promotion in the Navy. The two brothers signed up together and thus began Blubaugh’s college career, as a junior in high school. “I liked the night classes and atmosphere. People wanted to learn,” Blubaugh said.
After that first class, Blubaugh registered for other courses. “There wasn’t a wide abundance of courses to choose from at my high school, so I enjoyed the variety of classes at LFCC,” he said. Blubaugh took any course that interested him, from computers and economics to general education courses, such as English 101 and higherlevel mathematics courses.
“We live in a very small school district,” said Elizabeth Blubaugh, Morgan’s mother. “We realize that the high school is unable to meet everyone’s needs. This was the most viable and extraordinary option available to us without sending Morgan to a prep school. At minimal cost, Morgan was able to excel in his studies.”
Not only has Blubaugh received college credit for the courses he has taken, but an arrangement was worked out with Rappahannock County High School to allow his college courses to double as high school credits. “The high school was
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