The results of the approach are environments in which children are cooperative, responsible, empathetic, and calmer and more supportive of one another, basically enabled to manage themselves, freeing their teachers to teach curriculum. Creating and practicing classroom rules is as much a part of education for a democracy as science and social studies. All major classroom decisions which she previously made, were made by consensus of all her students and her. They even decided what to do for homework and what to study to fulfill established curriculum requirements in the classroom time mandated for each subject. One hallmark of a democratic culture is that people don't take social rules and activities for granted.
Democracy institutionalizes the process.
I find the fact that this is happening in elementary grades very exciting.