Teenagers may complain about the supervision but it will certainly be worth the effort and even appreciated later on in life. Another part of parenting that children will appreciate over time is learning the value of their own education. Students may best appreciate their own education and school system by having a voice in it. Becoming active in the student government could allow students to take ownership and pride in their own growth and in their community. Anyone who has spent any length of time in the work force knows that the most rewarding careers require following the above formula.
School districts have to follow well planned recipes to generate reproducible improvements.
The instructions for predictable changes must be scientifically based which is surprisingly not the current standard within most districts. Too much of our current curricula is based solely on educational fads, not based on the data gathered from controlled studies but from the pages of educationalists' editorials. Sure it is tempting to stand on a pulpit and cry for a complete change in education. Unstructured change with complex public school systems can be detrimental or at best produce small packets of localized improvements at the expense of larger groups. There are ways of handling this phenomenon in education.