It has started to change at college level, as some companies do not care about the "official" certifications and have their own "knowledge" selection processes.
This will happen more and more and widen the application, because school won't be providing the skills the company needs, so will either have to hunt differently or in-house train them, which they do anyway.
Looking back, I am happy we made the effort as he had many more opportunities he would have had if we would have left him in the public one.
And perhaps, there is a different social set there too, which impacts on the future also.
I just believe we have to teach our kids there are many online education resources which can complement what they do at regular school.
The challenge is, will they use them without guidance and supervision when there are other things more interesting to do?
Kahn Academy
Will have a look!