Sudbury Schools are schools in which kids are treated like adults. Issues are solved in the school meetings, in which decisions are made democratically between everyone in the community, including students and staff. People at the school are free to do what they want. These people graduated from this sudbury school, and are talking about their experiences going from the school to where they are now.

My parents couldn't swing it and now it's too late. I have all those bad habits from primary contemporary school baked into me. How do I fix this?

parepidemos productions So. That one kid. Try listening or reading about others www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201406/survey-grown-unschoolers-ii-going-college

@@Nothin2seehere-e4z yeah! It bugs me how a lot of adults say things like "well how do they learn to read?" If they are talking about younger kids. But I dont think they understand. They learn it the same way you learn to walk. Or talk. You observe, take it in and eventually you can do it yourself.

@@Nothin2seehere-e4z I found the problem, and it is not with the system... at least not totally... I haven't read the article, but will

I hate this comment still. Education isn't limited to college for the next step, but society currently influences what makes a good next step, which makes for a stumbling block for what someone's true next step should be

Not sure about the demographics of Tallgrass, but I do a lot of professional research into Sudbury and related schools, and I can say unequivocally that a good number of families are making liberal use of financial aid at these places. And let's just suppose that any success these kids have had is because they have rich parents. (Of course, I wouldn't make that assumption as I don't know these kids or their families, but that makes me different from you, I guess.) Okay, then. That means we can safely say - does it not? - that school has precisely 0 effect on life outcomes, because the income of your parents decides everything? That seems to be the conclusion you'd have to draw from your comment.

guydecervens Oh shut up. Maybe do some research instead of just assuming. This article say the opposite www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201406/survey-grown-unschoolers-ii-going-college

guydecervens is a troll. Check out his other comments. I find his comment very prejudiced and uninformed. . On what does he base the parents' incomes? The way the children are dressed? The fact that it's a "private school?" Did he even take a moment to research before he commented? This school's tuition is about half the cost of other private schools. The cost to educate a child in a public school is three times as much! The fact that he mentions Trump shows that he's trying to discredit the school and Trump followers in one statement. But in both cases he is sadly misguided.

Standard public school does a better job at churning out default democrats.

hi can i contact you regarding the school experience i am curious about this school and want to know insights so that I can send my daughter here

Students at Tallgrass have help and support from staff and other students. Their education at Tallgrass is very different from education at mainstream schools, but we've actually seen that Sudbury students are just as successful in higher education, and often more so, than students from mainstream schools. The students on this panel were certainly ready to go to college, and did so, and succeeded in their higher education pursuits. One has a masters in Economics, one went to culinary school and then completed a degree in nutrition, one finished nursing school, and one graduated from a liberal arts college with the highest honor her college awards.

Mary Orio - no, the correct spelling is as posted - their, as in "their" collective education.

Yea, go to school Mary, Sudbury for example :-)

Mary Orio If we are still talking about THE education, then it's THEIR education, not THERE. The subject is not the place but the education.

Mary Orio Ok, that makes it clear we are speaking about two different texts. :-)

This panel includes Tallgrass alums who have: finished a masters in Economics; gone to culinary school and finished a degree in nutrition; finished nursing school and passed the Illinois nursing licensing exam; and graduated with the highest honor at a liberal arts college. If you don't think those students are successful, I'd be interested to know what you think successful is.

@@tallgrasssudburyschool1466 got em

you're kidding right.

Yes. I, too, was wondering if GoofyLongBoarder was watching the same video I was watching.

Kevin Currie-Knight He probably never watch the video

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