Unless your teenage college student is married then , no, you do not check married filing jointly. It is not asking about his parents---it is asking about him. So---single. Holding a job at school and then having a different summer job is not the same as having multiple jobs at the same time.
When your child prepares a tax return it will be very important for him to say on his own return that he can be claimed as someone else's dependent.
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