Learning Life School

A nonprofit school that serves twelve students, employing two teachers in an old-fashioned one-room schoolhouse on a small farm with a barn, shops, and a van for exploration and summer quests.

Tuition: $12,000 for the first child, $10,000 for the second, $8,000 for the third.

• A woodstove for comfort, coziness, and wood-splitting work. 
• A kitchen for cooking nutritious homemade meals -- students take turns cooking in pairs, preparing meals from scratch.
• State of the art computers.
• In the garden, students learn practical skills. The younger kids learn how to mix potting soil and plant seeds and plant starts. The older kids graduate to larger tools, then the BCS walk-behind tractor, and then the large tractor.
• Ideally, we would have a wood and machine shop. Between the computers, garden, and the shop, students could pursue projects as diverse as video-game programming, a market garden enterprise, or the rebuilding of an old tractor.

Additional possibilities include:

(a) having a cooperative option where homeschooling families (or any families) can become members to have access to the site and participate in classes and workshops. They could get their "kitchen certification" to be able to use the kitchen, and their "dairy certification" to be able to milk the cows, after which they could carry on a cheese project, and so on

(b) making it also a cooperative farm where members learned to produce food and took home the bounty; could roll this into the same member price.

www.learninglifeschool.org is available.