Popa – I don’t know what goes on in your house, but in my house we make decisions with our teenage sons together. Where to go after high school is not a decision that my sons made by themselves, though their thoughts and feelings were respected. And if I felt the school they wanted was wrong for them, I would not let them go.
BTW Gush is a Hesder yeshiva that attracts very intellectual boys, most of whom go on to Ivy League colleges afterwards.