This reminds me of the Montessori method......maybe it would be better to have a separate (jr/sr high) school that offered this style off teaching to those who were motivated enoughto qualify for it with good enough grades and perhaps a paper/project or two....not every student would be well served with this, but the ones who were bored out of their gourds by high school (myself) would have a new lease on teenage years.
I just wish I could afford private school for my son.....
Of course, in this country....you get what you pay for.