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The New School

Are you sure that The New School is really a Sudbury school? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.231.216.164 (talk • contribs) 06:22, 25 June 2004 (UTC)[reply]

No I am not sure. But look at this site http://www.thenewschool.com/Organization.htm

There is self-directed learning, a assembly, school meeting, judicial committee and a yearly election of staffs. In my opinion these are the most important facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.133.91.1 (talk • contribs) 07:30, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jefferson County Open School

This school is definitely no sudbury school. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.133.91.1 (talk • contribs) 07:30, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

JCOS does meet all the criteria on Sudbury model. Although I just looked over their site again, and it appears they only mention the age mixing on that site. Too bad. --NormalAsylum ^(talk) 17:27, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria for a Sudbury school

I don't mean to criticize the inclusion of any given name on the list, but shouldn't the main criterion for definition as a Sudbury school simply be the school's self-definition? There are no set ideological criteria for this definition, there is no organization of Sudbury schools that sets criteria for membership, and the good folks over at Sudbury Valley School seem glad to meet people from schools with a variety of models similar to theirs and share their experience with them. Because of this vagueness - or complete absence - of definition, it looks like any school that associates itself with the Sudbury model and is not blatantly and obviously not a Sudbury school should be considered one. If a school does not associate itself with the model it should not be considered a part of it, as the ideological tenets of a school or the administrative system do not seem to be enough to define this model. Michael%Sappir 10:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sudbury Valley School has a list of ”Schools that operate in a manner similar to ours, and schools that identify themselves as Sudbury schools.” These include Leerhuis Brussel and De Vlinder, Sudbury school Gent in Belgium, Aquariushoeve in the Netherlands, and Democratic School Makkukurosuke and Democratic School Sola in Japan. I don’t understand Dutch, but Leerhuis Brussel seems to call itself a Sudbury school, and Aquariushoeve links to SVS (among other things, including Summerhill).

SVS’ page also includes the New London Freedom School, which has now merged with the Greenwood School, so I don’t know whether they count as separate schools. Aren’t they in different locations? The link to Greenwood School here doesn’t seem to lead to it anymore.

Also, “The Brooklyn Free School is based on the principles of Summerhill School in England, the Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts, and The Albany Free School in Albany, NY.” (I’ve seen it among the New London Freedom School’s Sudbury links, but I haven’t looked at all the other free schools.) Kletta 22:41, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pedantic geographical note

The Fairfield School (Wolfville, Nova Scotia) is in Canada - moved 30 Jan 2006. (Richard)

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 ==Criteria for a Sudbury school==
 I don't mean to criticize the inclusion of any given name on the list, but shouldn't the main criterion for definition as a Sudbury school simply be the school's self-definition? There are no set ideological criteria for this definition, there is no organization of Sudbury schools that sets criteria for membership, and the good folks over at Sudbury Valley School seem glad to meet people from schools with a variety of models similar to theirs and share their experience with them. Because of this vagueness - or complete absence - of definition, it looks like any school that associates itself with the Sudbury model and is not blatantly and obviously '''not''' a Sudbury school should be considered one. If a school does not associate itself with the model it should not be considered a part of it, as the ideological tenets of a school or the administrative system do not seem to be enough to define this model. [[User:Michael%Sappir|Michael%Sappir]] 10:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
+Sudbury Valley School has [http://www.sudval.org/07_othe_01.html a list] of ”Schools that operate in a manner similar to ours, and schools that identify themselves as Sudbury schools.” These include [http://www.leerhuisbrussel.be Leerhuis Brussel] and [http://www.devlinder-sudbury.be/ De Vlinder, Sudbury school Gent] in Belgium, [http://www.aquariushoeve.nl Aquariushoeve] in the Netherlands, and Democratic School Makkukurosuke and [http://www.ds-sola.com Democratic School Sola] in Japan. I don’t understand Dutch, but Leerhuis Brussel seems to call itself a Sudbury school, and Aquariushoeve links to SVS (among other things, including Summerhill).
+SVS’ page also includes the [http://www.newlondonfreedomschool.org/ New London Freedom School], which has now merged with the Greenwood School, so I don’t know whether they count as separate schools. Aren’t they in different locations? The link to Greenwood School here doesn’t seem to lead to it anymore.
+Also, “[http://www.brooklynfreeschool.org/ The Brooklyn Free School] is based on the principles of Summerhill School in England, the Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts, and The Albany Free School in Albany, NY.” (I’ve seen it among the New London Freedom School’s Sudbury links, but I haven’t looked at all the other [[free schools]].) [[User:Kletta|Kletta]] 22:41, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 ==Pedantic geographical note==