[Prudence]

I don't have any spiffy parenting advice. But, I can say that I've been there as a student and it sucks. It's like prison. And there are a bunch of rules that are meant to keep other people in line, but the spillover effect is to limit what other kids (who COULD handle more) can do.

However, getting his GED might seem like the easy solution now, but as you likely know it is really the much harder road. He's so close to graduation - even if it feels like it's so far away - that staying the course is the "easy" route, all things considered.

Morigoon probably has the best solution. What's great about taking college credit early is that a lot of times you can then skip the entry level/freshman classes once you are in college first time. That way when he starts "real" college he'll be going in at a higher level and skip all the basically high-school level stuff.