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Originally Posted by jinx
Clonlara?
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No, it's actually a public school with an "alternative" program. I use the "" because so many people assume that alternative means for bad kids.
The school is run by the staff, parents and students together. Learning is co-operative rather than competitive and student-driven. Classes are mixed age and teachers and all members of the community are known by their first-name, learning is experience and interest driven, with many field-trips, special focus studies etc....
(Hard to put in a nutshell,
Here's the Website)
how's that for a topic drift?
(drifting futher, I remembered that someone on this board sent their children to Upattinas, and a quick search tells me that's you, I think. The philosophy is similar, although -being within the public school system- we are subject to an element of testing and specified curriculum (which we ignore to the best of our ability
) basically, they send us tests, we grit our teeth and do them, we exceded expectations then continue in our own merry way)
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