Poor Education is a Lock with its Key Thrown Away

Everyone on the blog so far has said similar things, so we can conclude that the education system is antiquated. The majority can agree that this system, designed to help us improve and prepare for the real world, has; in fact, put a damper on our learning experience. However, rather than complaining about the grand-father system what are some ways that we as students can improve it? I was thinking a system this out of date probably hasn't been fixed because it's
simply too hard to change something that has been designed to be applicable to American students years to come. I figured the best way for our system to improve would be through the board of education taking the time out to do a poll, and genuinly ask students how they believe the system can be changed for the better. I assumed that since they took the time out to keep this obsolete system then they have plenty more to fix it. At the end the day, for this to be a success they would have to drop their parochial views and be open to change.  Because change is exactly what needs to happen with this method as schools continue to have new and different generations of students who are much too modern for something that has little to no impacting critique.
How do you all think we can improve our school system?
What measures would we  have to take to have a more sufficient method of education for future students?