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No Summer Vacation For Vincent
(BB, 9/97)


While you get ready to go on summer vacation, Vincent Kartheiser is stuck at home.

Even though many Boppers think that the celebrity lifestyle is completely cool, it does have it's downside. For starters, while you yell, "Yahoo! It's summer!" and go on vacation, Vincent Kartheiser, the 18-year-old who's appearing in the due-this-September movie Masterminds, doesn't get a break. Like many actors, he has home school, which means he has to study all year round.

Since Vinnie's been hitting the books at home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the only time he's spent in an actual school is while filming the school scenes in Masterminds in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. But so far, studying at home had been working well for him. After a rough start to his high school years ("I failed ninth grade, " he tells BB), Vinnie has maintained a 4.0 grade-point average for the last two years. And he's planning to graduate from high school in 1998. But considering his school, Laurel Springs School for the Stars, is different from regular schools, it's hard to pinpoint what grade he's in. "I'm like half junior, half senior," he says, struggling to explain. "It's really strange and I wish I could explain it, but I can't." This sounds interesting, but how exactly doesn't it work, Vin? "They make you a curriculum for 36 weeks and you do it and you mail it back to them," he explains.

For anyone who is used to schools with lockers, vending machines and teachers, home school seems really odd. Think about it! If he wishes to, Vincent can do his schoolwork in his pajamas while he eats breakfast in bed. And he knows he's not the only one doing it. THere are a slew of stars who so the same thing. "I ran into [Party of Five's] Love Hewitt awhile back and she said she goes there. And [1996's Carpool star] Rachel Leigh Cook used to go there, too," he says.

But what about P.E. class? Who teaches him that? His neighbor? No, not at all! Vinnie finds a way to get in shape and get credit for it. "I went to my fencing coach and I said, 'Hey, will you fill this out,'" Vinnie says, referring to a form his school sent him. "My coach filled out how many hours a week I do and sent it in. Or let's say on [1996's] Alaska, we did a lost of canoeing and mountain climbing, so we had the stunt coordinator write all that up and send it in."

Hmmm. . . canoeing, mountain climbing, fencing classes, cereal, pajamas, Lave Hewitt! Sounds pretty exciting, well, most of the time. "It's getting a little boring, I have to admit," Vinnie says. "But you get used to it."

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