[nopardons]

This is now a rather old concept,tried in England ( it was begun in 1921 and lasted for a few decades ) many years ago, known as SUMMERHILL ( that was also the name of the school ), and it failed miserably!

It was also sort of tried in America, in the early 1950s, but not to the same extent and also failed.

You'd think that people in the education field would know about this, but apparently they didn't get the message in Norway.

[Responsibility2nd]

“It was also sort of tried in America, in the early 1950s, but not to the same extent and also failed.”

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I’m sure it will soon be re-packaged and re-branded and introduced again to schools accross the USA.

With the same results.

[decimon]

Something I don’t get from the article is if the students are to collectively help decide what the class will study or to individually help decide what each will study. If the latter then I don’t see how a teacher could keep up with it all.