Even at the best colleges in US, students

take gap years.

See a psychologist - Parents, grandparents and the child.  Don't take it lightly.  Don't put pressure on the child.

The last thing parents/grandparents would do is to "tell the child he does not have a future without going to high school".  Keep him safe and alive should be the first priority.

Last year, one student committed suicide in the local high school because of academic pressures.