Nice idea. Be careful that "3. (if we are in a public school) Looking for ways to game the system (because we're not learning much in it)." is quite US-specific. Both in the way to game the system (since systems are very different from place to place), and in the relative quality of public/private schools (and the absolute quality of public ones). It may have changed since my time (almost 15 years already... time flies fast) but French public high-school used to be interesting places in which you could learn a lot if you wanted to.