Free and Democratic. Students at Sudbury schools, including Clearwater and Trillium in Washington state, do whatever they want at school, so long as it isn't breaking the school's rules, which are made and enforced, largely, by students. The staff simply supervise, making sure everyone's OK, and checking in with students.
Some students play video games all day. Some 11 year olds study algebra. They can do what they want, go where their inclinations take them.
It seems like a very liberating model, and more aligned with free, non-industrialized human nature than anything we currently have, but it is missing one thing: grown-ups. Kids in a kid world isn't how kids have always grown up. Kids certainly had a lot of that, as they could not be supervised all the time, but kids spent most of their time involved with, or in proximity to, grown-ups doing grown up things. There is a crucial transmission here that seems like it would be lacking in the Sudbury model.
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