Year books always have every class in them. He was living and going to school in California, before he moved to Florida, so of course his picture is in an old year book, from California.
OTOH...if he does NOT go back to school, how is he going to go to college and then become someone on CNN, which I'm guessing is what he REALLY wants to do. It's not as though his parents are all that "important", which is how Satchel Allen/Ronan Farrow got his "job", though Ronan did finish high school and graduated from college.
He can transfer his school credits to an accredited online high school and finish out the semester putting in less than 3 hours a day.