Recently while in a traditional school I asked a group of fifth graders to describe a perfect school...how they would like to experience school. I was amazed at their responses...most of them mentioned things like it would be clean, children would "behave," everyone ould walk in straight lines, and some said no homework. Not even one student mentioned things like choosing what we want to learn, or having fun. These reponses differed immensely from when I asked children in my program Open D...
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