College “too easy” for 9-year-old

I wanted this story to be from the U.S. so that I could give a critique on how undergraduate work (at least in some areas) is the new high school, but it’s not, and I’m not going to go spouting off about foreign education systems.

However, in reading the short blurb, I came to think that the retractors — worried about the kid’s social development — possibly are right. Now, college certainly is a social endeavor in many respects, and I’d contend that you can learn if you want to, but it’s not required to get a degree (i.e. you don't have to learn anything to get answers right on a test). So, to want this kid to have a "normal" childhood is plausible.

On the other hand, my argument against the social development thing says to me if this kid is saying college classes are too easy, I think he’s going to have even more problems with social development in secondary school; the kids that are so incredibly bored are often the ones that have to find something else to do with their time, which is not always positive for them. Why not let the boy be challenged?