I just watched Voices from the New American Schoolhouse trailer at YouTube after hearing about it at Boing Boing. The clip concerns a radial experiment in education taking place in Fairhaven. It's a school where kids (of all ages) make the rules and decide what they want to learn and when.

Of course, I've heard about projects like this before, and we can find parallels in the history of universities (such as those of Bologna). Somehow, though, I'm skeptical. If I were 12 and allowed to "make my own lesson plan," it would consist entirely of videogames and the occasional SF flick. Perhaps I would play some basketball. I might also get interested in sexual education. Other than that, as long as the cafeteria served lots of hamburgers and pizza, I guess I'd be like, pretty, you know, uh, cool with this schizzle...