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The cost is a problem. For people who send their kids to public schools because they can't afford to pay anything. I like their scholarships and sliding scale.
that is a problem with the oppressive system that they are forced to exist within, not with the school itself. if the public school system would support such a school and allow it to take the shape that it takes today without forcing it to reform, the people that start such schools would be more than willing to make them public. the people at Sudbury actually often say that the school would be better if only more people would enroll. they have no objection to it, and many such schools are trying to find ways to attract more students for that reason. i am personally, however, going to school board meetings, in part, for the very purpose of trying to find a way to make this type of school a possibility under public funding.
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But there is a wait list and I'm sure that the word of mouth about this excellent school is privileged to a select few. Mainly those who are conscious of free education and they happen to come from economically privileged roots.
lol @ people with economically privileged roots. this is something addressed in one of the videos i linked above. it is false. i went to this democratic elementary school for information today. there were kids from all sorts of backgrounds and social class levels (i knew because i went around 3 when their parents were picking them up). additionally, if you actually read this Wiki page that i posted earlier as well, you will see that this is completely factually false:
"The Free School (Albany) is a day school for 60 students aged two to fourteen founded in 1969 by Mary Leue. The student population is as diverse as the surrounding racially and socioeconomically mixed downtown neighborhood, with approximately half of the kids coming from the inner city, one-fourth from uptown, and the remainder from outlying areas. The school operates with a sliding scale tuition and no one is turned away for financial reasons."
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I noticed only white faces in the last videos you put up free school, educational democracy? hmmm......
lol WOW! i go to school board meetings that are open to the public in Latin neighborhoods where the great majority of the people are white. it has nothing to do with selective knowledge or racial privilege, it has to do with chance.
and again:
"The Free School (Albany) is a day school for 60 students aged two to fourteen founded in 1969 by Mary Leue. The student population is as diverse as the surrounding racially and socioeconomically mixed downtown neighborhood, with approximately half of the kids coming from the inner city, one-fourth from uptown, and the remainder from outlying areas. The school operates with a sliding scale tuition and no one is turned away for financial reasons."