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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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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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Learning to be a Parent of a Sudbury Valley Student
It isn’t always easy to take the road less traveled. When my daughter first started attending Sudbury Valley School, she was five-years-old. Parents, friends and…
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SVS Intangibles
It is odd but true that the things we most value in our lives are things which are hard to quantify but easy to feel….
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Struggling to Engage Parents
(Part 1 in The Living Water School School’s “Transparency” Series) It is late. I have just fed my dogs. Everyone is asleep and like most nights,…
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To Investigate… or Not…
People always say the J.C. is the heart of the school. They’re right. It’s the way our school handles misdeeds or wrong doings on a…
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Summitting My Personal K2
Fifty years of working to keep SVS alive and vital is my personal equivalent of summitting K2 the toughest mountain on earth. Warning! Unlike most…
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The Last Days of Our 50th Year
The last days of the fiftieth birthday year of Sudbury Valley were days of fun, of laughter, and also of tears. The fun part was…
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Celebrating Fairhaven at 20
Twenty years ago a Sudbury type school was established in the state of Maryland. Its group of founders, with help, bought twelve acres in a…
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Inside the Enchanted Forest
I was speaking with a prospective family at an Open House a few months ago and telling them about the democratic process at Sudbury Valley…
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Fun at SVS is More Than Meets the Eye
It’s already the first week of July and it is only now that I finally am rested enough to have a modicum of perspective about…
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Rainbow in the Snow: Another Fantastic Ski Experience at SVS
I myself am tired of my stories about SVS trips in general and of skiing trips in particular. But I just can’t help it! The…
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Fifty Years, Front and Center!
Sudbury Valley has just begun the 2017-2018 school year – and an exciting one it is! This will be our 50th year of operation, the…
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The Power of Cooking
The school year has started with a bang! Students and staff are excited for activities and work to begin. The amount of fundraisers we recently…
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