Free Schools

[FinnMacCool]

I'm writing a paper on how I would change the curricuclum of the school. The basis for my paper will be that "Free Schools" are a better alternative.

I was just hoping that somebody here maybe could direct me to some resources that I could use for my research.

[Lenin's Law]

Just as a point of clarification - I am assuming you are referring to literally all schools being free from elementary school to the secondary, college level?

[FinnMacCool]

Just as a point of clarification - I am assuming you are referring to literally all schools being free from elementary school to the secondary, college level?

My focus is going to be on the high school level, but I'm also gonna talk about college, elementary school etc.

[mykittyhasaboner]

You do realize public schools are already free. (in the US at least, i don't know where you live)

or perhaps your using a different meaning of the word 'free'?

[shorelinetrance]

You do realize public schools are already free. (in the US at least, i don't know where you live)

or perhaps your using a different meaning of the word 'free'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_school

[Comrada J]

Plenty of stuff on these two sites:

http://www.spinninglobe.net/gattopage.htm
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/

”In other words, the captains of industry and government explicitly wanted an educational system that would maintain social order by teaching us just enough to get by but not enough so that we could think for ourselves, question the sociopolitical order, or communicate articulately. We were to become good worker-drones, with a razor-thin slice of the population—mainly the children of the captains of industry and government—to rise to the level where they could continue running things.”

I personally hold a grudge against the current schooling system. In my country we have the highest rate of drop outs in the first world, also this may be happening in your country too: many parents aren't even sending their children to school and are just homeschooling them < a good tangible point saying that alot parents don't trust public schools.

[Kukulofori]

I went to a school that was heavily based on Gatto's writings (he even came to speak one day, I got his autograph) in 6th grade. If you need to know anything about it ask.

[lombas]

Check out Ferrer i Guàrdia and the Escuela Moderna in Spain. They had a huge succes in elevating the masses and create class-conciousness. A lot of the people who willingly joined the revolution during the civil war had been educated in those Modern Schools. The idea also spread to the US.

Of course Ferrer i Guàrdia was executed for his work. Of course.

[Rascolnikova]

http://lowryhousepublishers.com/TeenageLiberationHandbook.htm


(http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/)