13 year old college student claims age discrimination

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100325/ap_on_re_us/us_prodigy_study_abroad

I thought that this was an interesting article when I stubbled upon it.  The article talks about this 13 year old boy who goes to college at the University of Connecticut, he had planned on studying abroad in South Africa for one of his majors, but college said that he was too young to go.  His mother and he were trying to make arragements where she could accompany him to South Africa so he could do his studies that were imparative for his future plans.  So him and his mother are claiming age discrimination against the college. 

I thought that this was a very interesting concept.  My relatives have a foreign exchange student staying with them who is in the 7th grade.  But the college wont let a student, who they have always treated like any other student, to go to South Africa to further his studies that he has worked hard to accomplish.  He has shown maturity to handle himself in college but now the college is making him into a sort of out-group because of his age.  Saying that he doesn't have the maturity to handle studying in South Africa.  He has tried to make accomodations so that he will be able to study.