Hi Desiree -
:)
--- Jigme Champa wrote:
> I have for instance been at the treshold of the first school in this
> country, inspired on the system first used in the Sudberry Valley school
> in Latin America (sure you can google this up).
The Sudbury Valley School is not in Latin America. It was started in the town where i live here in Massachusetts in 1968 and is still located here in my town.
The public school systems here routinely suggest that students who do not succeed within their (overly rigid) framework might be able to succeed there, and they are correct for many students.
It is an interesting school, not altogether different from Summerhill, in the UK, and at one point i considered sending my daughter there. Lizz has very high IQ and has certain challenges with the standard school curriculum, as a result. I found that starting her out in a Montessori program was a wonderful thing to do.
I am a firm believer in alternatives to tradidional schools and was a tutor at an alternative high school many years ago. One of the colleges i attended had only 300 students total and a person designed their own curriculum and completed a four-year program there in only 3 years. I feel, from that first hand experience, that empowering the students to design their own programs of study is one of the best ways to raise our children to become life long learners.
So what you are talking about with the school there makes a lot of sense.
Good luck with it.
And good luck finding the focus - i think that might be the missing ingredient, being able to maintain focus. I know you can do that when the conditions are right. Go for it!
love and peace,
joyce
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