<p>lilyou -</p>
<p>Your son needs to investigate the specifics of this honors program. It may offer him something that he wants, but cannot get if he is not in that program. On the other hand, it might not offer anything that is particularly useful to him. </p>
<p>One thing that he does need to ask about is WHICH English, Science and History classes he would be choosing from in the honors program,and whether there is a specific semester by which this series must be completed. If these are classes that he absolutely doesn’t want to take, then he doesn’t want to be in the honors program. Period. If he thinks that they might be fun/useful/interesting, and they can be completed at any time during his four years, that is a different situation entirely.</p>