[rice_classic]

You're over thinking this and you're spending way too much mental energy. Like others have said, let it go. Get your son beater for driving to school because:

A: Highschool kids cause damage. Period, end of story.
B: Highschool kids know that under the age of 18 they can kinda do what they want, especially if they have parents that don't do much parenting and these kids definitely cause damage.
C: Remember that scene in The Dark Knight where Alfred says to Bruce: "Some people just want to watch the world burn." That pretty much describes a lot of high school students who suffer through the everyday emotional torture that is...other kids. So these kids too... damage stuff, not out of spite, not out of revenge, just because they enjoy damaging stuff.
D: Think back to when YOU were in highschool. One kid had an MG so 10 of us pick his car up and hid it behind a dumpster. Took him an hour to find it, thought it was stolen, we laughed so hard that day. Why? Because high school.


Basically if someone asked me to list 5 reasons "why we can't have nice things", I would put high school kids on that list. Your kid might be an angel, just like everyone's kid is an angel but in reality... nobody's kid is really an angel.

Buying a brand new car for a high school kid to drive to school is a bit silly. Heck, I wouldn't have bought him a nice car until after college. College kids, especially on college campuses, are another reason why "we can't have nice things." Maybe #4 on the list.