Hi, first post for me. This is feasible up to a point. The all out "charter school" idea would have the most government and beaurecratic hangups. There would s

Hi, first post for me. This is feasible up to a point. The all out "charter school" idea would have the most government and beaurecratic hangups. There would still have to be standards and accountability (read: testing) that would have to go along in order to comply with this. However, there could be some smaller, scalable, proof of concept models that you could deploy to both public and private schools. For instance, you could create that whole idea into a subject (Design, Hack, 'trep 101), or you could make it completely elective like during lunch or after school. Another way to approach it is create it through a vocational program. These programs exist for other trades, mainly blue collar, in which they get paid a little and learn to be an electrician, car mechanic, etc. Around my area, there is a vocational school that pulls from all the high schools in the area, and they take the second half of the school block to attend. Transferring that sort of model over into "Hacker School" would seem like a nice first step to see whether it would succeed.