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Life at Sudbury Valley
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On Playing War
A broken leg is no fun. However, since at SVS almost any new situation can become a window into what is going on in the…
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“I Want To Be the Age I Am Right Now!”
I realized that one of the kids in school who had been here for many years was about to turn eleven. (How dare she get…
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Doing Nothing
There is a stigma against people who are perceived to be “doing nothing”. The greatest fear that most adults have, vis-a-vis children enrolled in Sudbury Valley,…
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Where Does Happiness Come From?
I confess that I wasn’t thinking about happiness in 1968, when my husband and I decided to send our children to the almost-open Sudbury Valley…
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Every One, The Best
How can every person be above average? It sounds impossible, but it is a given in the community at Sudbury Valley. Living life with a…
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The Heart of the School, Two Takes
If you happen to be sitting in the large front room called “the sewing room,” you might notice that every day at 11:00 a.m., eight people walk into the adjacent book-lined “seminar room.” What you are seeing is the gathering of the school’s Judicial Committee (JC).
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The evil of the “teaching moment”
This is a confession: It took me many, many years to learn how not to pounce and use what are called “teaching moments” at home…
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Is SVS Intentionally LGBTQ Friendly?
A few months ago, my kids were planning a big sleepover of SVS students at our house. Besides the usual suspects, there was one new…
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The Joy a Valentine Fairy Brings
It was Valentine’s Day. There had been something afoot for quite a few days, and there were lots of valentines – simple but perfect (Cori…
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Happiness: The Forgotten “Unalienable Right”?
There is not a lot of talk these days about happiness. It’s considered more of an accidental condition than a fundamentally required, or expected, one….
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Portrait of a Culture
What do SVS students have in common? What are the distinguishing features of this vibrant collection of people whose energy strikes you the moment you…
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The SVS Construction Boom
All through this past winter kids at school spent time outdoors when they could (usually), playing basketball, taking walks, climbing on the rocks, or using…
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What does “learning” look like at SVS?
This is a tough question. SVS lacks the more traditional ways of bench marking a child’s progress through school. There are no parent-teacher conferences, no…
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When You Were A Little Girl
Emma is just one of those “little girls”. They don’t look that individualized; they look like the little girls one used to see in picture…
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A Tour De Force
In the car on the way home from the Maynard Fine Arts Theater on Saturday, January 26, Danny and I were elated. We had just…
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What is a Fiftieth Anniversary at Sudbury Valley?
Well, first of all, it miraculously not only starts on the first day of our fiftieth year of existence, but keeps going through two full…
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