I too signed my son up for college classes when he was 15. He did fail a few, but when he graduated from high school, he had 30 hours college credit, and a new appretiation for getting his work finished! He spent the next year finishing up at the community college and transfers to the university of his choice in Aug. He is 18. Gotta love homeschooling.
I didn't realize we had sons so close in age to each other (ours will be 16 in mid-September).
Ours is showing no interest in taking college classes at this point, though.
Best wishes to your son! I'm sure you have prepared him well while "violating his rights" and "abusing" him 
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Steve, I have two sons. The other one is 17. He is also taking a few college courses; PreCalculus, Speech, and sound engineering. Like you, he is a keyboard player and thinks he might like to do sound engineering as either a hobby or full time career. As for preparing them, I can only hope. My oldest daughter did very well her first year, but she is very self disciplined. But my son is a bit too much like me, fun first work second. He is bright enough to handle the work, but I'm not sure he's smart enough to know that he actually do the work.
I am so encouraged that we, as home-school families, have these opportunities at local colleges. Previously, we lived in a part of Michigan that is more remote and not within a commutable distance to a college. So, we sent our 16 year old daughter away to college. She received a full tuition academic scholarship from the college. It just happened to be in downtown Jackson, MS! It was a culture shock, to say the least. She had never even spent the night away from home with the exception of relatives. The transition was difficult for all of us. I had to fly down there to put out a fire on at least one occasion. In the end, she did a terrific job. She graaduated in 3 years (age 19) summa cum laude. She is now back home and has started her own on-line school, worked on major editing projects and is writing for a magazine.
The moral: Homeschooled kids do great and, once again, another "expert" doesn't know what he's talking about!
Do you think "Dr." Bainbridge has even MET a homeschooler? I can't even call him "Dr." and be serious about it...was it a mail-order degree?
Does he not know that Ivy League schools are recruiting homeschoolers?
Tsk, tsk, the Dr. must feel threatened...as me thinks he protects too much!
Blessings from Ohio...
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