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[quote=Anonymous]Not DMV so idk how it works there, but when I was in grad school (older than most of them) one of my fellow older grad students (older than me) had 2 sons who did public school in a rural town, except she had arranged for them to take university math classes, idk what the logistivs were because online was barely a thing then and they lived 100 miles from the university they were taking the classes through. Her 17 year old son gave a talk on compression algorithms to one of our seminars once. Very nice kid and well socialized as well. There was also an undergrad (sophomore during my first year of grad) who was happily making his way through grad level math courses at our own university, also very nice and well socialized kid--had hippy parents and was a bit hippy himself, with tons of friends both within and outside of his areas of study. He ended up with a research assistantship in the UC system the rest of us could only dream of and was teaching at Yale by the time he was 26.

Idk what my IQ was (although when I started grad school--state lang grant university--the dean commented I had the highest GRE scores he'd ever seen, I know those were like 99th percentile, but never felt I was super super smart), but I kept myself busy in h.s. with a book under the desk or playing with math or drawing. I did have to be sneaky about it.

If the problems in his physics course are too easy, fine--have him work ahead and if he can finish the text (if they have textbooks these days!) push for him to advance to whatever is next. [/quote]

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