In the meantime...if that were my child, there would be hell to pay if they came home with the slightest scratch or the teacher gave them the slightest funny look!
The game can be played both ways.
The real question is why he isn't homeschooling. (Or the rest of the parents in the district). How do they rationalize their turning their children over to the State to be brainwashed as war is waged against their beliefs and values?