Originally Posted by polarbear
I was really bored in high school, and skipped a lot too. Skipping was fun smile Going to class, not so much lol!
At my high school in the 1980s there was a policy that you would be docked a full letter grade for skipping a single class. High schools do value attendance, in part because funding is tied to attendance and also because they are supposed to help enforce truancy laws.

Some but not all college course do not require attendance, although I would not recommend skipping classes. More important, the number of hours per week of class time is much lower than in high school. There is no "study hall", and you are not being babysat/warehoused. I was a goody two-shoes in high school, but high school graduation was still one of the best days in my life, because it meant FREEDOM. Accelerating your children means granting them freedom earlier.