Whole-school reform is the point. One of my worst nightmares is when people turn small schools into tracks. And then, one school was going to be the humanities school, to attract the middle-class white kids back to the school. That's not what anybody ever meant by small schools. That is a fundamental distortion.
Small schools are heterogeneous, and commit to figuring out how to bring the genius out in everyone.
The illusion that accountability means rules and surveillance of teachers and students. That is not accountability, that is oppression. Accountability comes from relationships and responsibility. That's what small schools produce. You can't hide.