All School Meeting members are equal before the law. In fact, the first guilty verdict ever was against staff members. Democracy alone is not enough to create a stable happy community. It is also important that personal freedoms and rights be respected. So let me put forward the reasons why persons in Sudbury Model Schools believe that freedom and democracy is the best environment for children to learn.
People naturally learn to deal with the environment in which they are placed.
It is testimony to the strength of the human spirit that there are so FEW apathetic and helpless people that come out of the public school system. Please note that this mailing list is a private mailing list, maintained by Scott Gray. It is an accident that Scott's Internet access is on the sudval.org server, and this mailing list is neither maintained nor endorsed by the Sudbury Valley School.