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The kid is a minor. His signature isn't worth much of anything. Minors will sign pretty much anything their parents want them to sign.


The school has no authority over the kid's personal life and personal time.


The high school graduate diploma is only valuable in that it has an equivalent value to the graduate diplomas of other high schools, whether in status or as a tool to get admission to a college. To take the value of an object that society has given you and misuse it in this way (as in, not a measure of one's academic achievement but as a means of social control) is to undermine both the value of a high school diploma for all people and the institution of education itself.


For example, let's say I'm openning up Charlie High School. There's no classes at Charlie High School. And there's only one rule- Don't have sex. If you follow that rule for four years, you're given your degree. If not, no degree.


Substituting academic achievement for an illegal attempt at social control is unconscionable. This school should be sharply censured. And if it wants to continue, it should change accordingly. If not, the state should close down the school immediately.


Society has made the high school diploma valuable through its investment in education. It must demand that its value be maintained by sister private institutions. Withholding that high school equivalency over illegitimate grounds should be made illegal. Laws must protect minors who are often underrepresented and made victims in situations like these.