Sudbury

Here's an article about Sudbury:

Would You Send Your Kids to a School Where Students Make the Rules?

...which I've always thought is an interesting model.

I don't believe that children are naturally better able to educate themselves for life than people who have experienced more of it. I think my second-grader's Chumash teacher has a much better idea of what she will need to know in life than she does.

I do think that you get extremely interesting results (the Hebrew word for part of what I have in mind is chus  - the special love a person has for something he's sought out for himself) when you offer this kind of autonomy anyway.