Talk:List of Sudbury schools

Moved the following to Former Schools

• Sudbury De vlinder, Ghent
• Full Circle Community School, Orlando, Florida

I assumed they were closed because their websites no longer existed, if they are still open and just have broken websites feel free to move them back and update the link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.115.230.188 (talk) 01:59, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 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.) [Indented later, when I figured out how.] Kletta 22:41, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Pedantic geographical note

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

Should the list have internal links to schools?

The Circle School, The Highland School, and Sudbury Valley School have their own articles. Should they be linked from their names on this list? Thanks in advance! --Kletta (talk) 01:48, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, better to link the WP articles. —Ashley Y 01:53, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I've done that with The Circle School and The Highland School. I'd forgotten that there's already an internal link to the original SVS at the start; should the link on the list also be an internal one? --Kletta (talk) 05:16, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Fairfield School

I've deleted from the page, as it has closed. The listing was:

• The Fairfield School, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

and a reference to it's closing is here Nfitz (talk) 02:18, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, the link to the article doesn't seem to work for me. Could the school still be listed under former schools, like The Chicago Sudbury School and Big Rock Sudbury School are? --Kletta (talk) 14:10, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Done - along with the now closed Beach School Nfitz (talk) 21:20, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Definition?

I have been updating, expanding, and streamlining the democratic education and democratic school pages. Is there a clear definitional reason for listing Sudbury schools separately from democratic schools? From what I see, Sudbury schools have been influenced/inspired by the Sudbury Valley School. However, they do not seem to be definitionally outside democratic schools.

In addition, there a number of schools listed here that were neither inspired by the Sudbury Valley School (rather, the Summerhill School or some other democratic school) nor include the word "Sudbury" in their name.

I suggest that clear definitional criteria for List of Sudbury Schools be created that limit, if possible, this list to those that self-identity with Sudbury Valley School.

In addition, and in line with the discussion going on at the Sudbury School discussion page, perhaps we should consider consolidating this page with the Sudbury School page and linking it to the democratic school page so as to streamline these things. Maguire09 (talk) 20:29, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

There used to be an excellent page describing the model, which is unique from democratic schools. A lot of people put a lot of work into it, but I guess it was deleted? That's a shame. Aaronwinborn (talk) 00:58, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Notability

Fortunately, you didn't yet delete the page, so I'm going to restore it for now until we can get this sorted out. For notability, please visit Google Trends, where you will note that the volume of searches for 'sudbury school' has consistently been far greater than for 'democratic school' over the past five years. Additionally, there have been more books written about the Sudbury model of education than for any other single model. If you have other specific concerns of notability, I can help to address them. Meanwhile, as I have time over the next few weeks, I'll work on finding other sources of information. Aaronwinborn (talk) 14:51, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Is this issue also in reference to there being no third party information included in this article? Can we include Peter Gray articles from Psychology Today? http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn Tintoberries (talk) 06:36, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Sydney Australia

I've deleted the proposed school in Sydney, Australia since the only ref for it is a facebook page that states that someone would like to0 create such a school in Sydney, but not to expect much on the page for a year or two. (I'd like to create such a school under a palm tree in Hawaii, but I'm going to hold off on the wikipage until I at least choose my tree.) I'm only bothering to explain this deletion since I see that this same entry was previously deleted and then restored. Meters (talk) 23:04, 26 February 2014 (UTC)