Open up schools designed for trade or categories.
Imagine:
You send your student to a computer science school. Instead of sitting in a classroom, the old kids teach the younger kids. Once your student understands the concept, they move on and advance. Once they are knowledgeable in the subject, they teach others. Once they teach another student, that student takes their place and they move on to another school to learn something else. Eventually, leading your student down their own personal path and finding more diamonds in the rough.
Implementation:
Remove the school systems that have failed our kids and resemble more of prison than a education center. Setup satellite campuses, like universities have. Remove classes like English as it is covered in all trades. Create hands on learning stations that stimulates the individual kid. Having students teach students means less teachers, means more 1/1 or 3/3 training, means more mentoring, means more understanding, as you have to know enough to teach.
Personal Experience:
I dropped out of highschool, which I had Ds and Fs. Got my GED, went to a community college, then transfered to a University, where I Graduated with a 4.0. I have homeschooled/unschooled 4 of my kids. I never taught them English, science, technology, or an other specific subject; I thought them trades. I also, moved into an RV and we traveled around going to museums, forts, and conventions.
When entering a museum I never saw a kid not engaged or fascinated by what was going on, except field trip kids. Field trip kids ruined the experience for everyone else learning, as they come through like a sand storm, cutting trough people and causing destruction. They also were not able to take the time to learn anything as they are rushed through, because they were 40 kids with 1 adult.
The kids that were there on small groups or with parents, no matter their economic or ethnic standing, were highly engaged and spent time understanding each individual portion of the museum.
When a child gets an opportunity to mentor another, is the time they really understand what they learn and find a purpose in their lives outside of themselves, we are completely lacking this in our current system, which is breeding selfishness and narcissism. Selfishness, narcissism, and stupidity, is a dangerous combination.
Improvement for the child and parents:
When a child comes home from school and you ask them, how was your day, usually it is something personal, like Becky threw up on the teacher, or someone beat up someone. These sound more like prison stories. But giving an opportunity to ask and get an answer that blows your mind like, we learned how to code a button that makes a man wave and Billy taught me how to slow down and take the time to label so we don’t have to spend so much time searching for files. Or better yet, Oliver the kid I am mentoring… Doesn’t matter how that sentence ends, it is engaging and unifying for a parent and child to have intellectual discourse.