This should be re-titled as choice for parents.
Good catch. Being old school, kids should have very limited choices when it comes to life altering decisions. I tell my kids when they move out and pay their own bills then they can choose where we live and what groceries we buy and what school they go to.
One of mine came home the other day spouting some rhetoric from a kid at their private school who told my kid that they wanted to do their last year at a public high school so they are leaving school. I told her BS, either the parents couldn’t afford it or the kid got in trouble. Any parent that lets a kids make a decision of that magnitude that can dramatically affect their life is passing the decision buck to the uninformed kid.