Late night Browsing

Yahoo! Groups : DemocracyInPublicSchools

This seems to be an interesting "group". It is no longer active, as far as I can tell, so it is more for informational purposes than anything else. Most of the posts I have looked at thus far are written by a teacher in an inner city Public school attempting to implement a sort of psuedo-democratic structure in a traditional school. He seems to have some interesting ideas, though I would be interested to see how these students fare after a year in that environment. It seems like the problem with giving children only one year of freedom (and I am not arguing against it), is that it is very apparent to the children (I would assume) that the freedom is not theirs but rather given to them at the whim of one particular teacher. I would worry about whether the students might tend to "choose" to follow the teachers suggestions out of fear of losing their freedom altogether if they struck out on their own. It seems like this would be a fine line to walk.