Jerry Mintz
Alternative Education Resource Organizatioon
http://www.edrev.org
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On Wed, 27 May 1998, Tigger wrote:
> I'm about to graduate from Goddard College, a small
> progressive college that is, in theory, democratic as well. My
> partner attended Sudbury Valley before graduating and coming to
> Goddard. I've visited Sudbury Valley and I think that part of the
> reason I fell so in-love was that SV has a system that alleviates
> many of the problems that I've been working so long to fix here at
> Goddard. I've looked into some of the other progressive, democratic
> colleges and I don't believe that any of them begin to compare to the
> system at Sudbury. It was uplifting to go to SV and see that all of
> the philosophies I've worked so hard on can actually work at a
> school, but I don't know how one could have a college that could
> compare... Accreditation (sp?) has always been a problem for us, as
> well as fundraising. We have problems with
> politics because we have a president and an administration that keep
> true democracy from happening. In short I guess that colleges like
> Goddard and some of the others mentioned are the best next step for a
> Sudbury school graduate, but in all my travels I've never seen a
> college so truly "free" or democratic as SV.
> Jen
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