Lefty Parent

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Living & parenting without the rule book

Posts Tagged ‘student involvement in school governance’

Baby Steps toward Democratic Education: Advice if not Consent

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

In advocating for more democratic schools in a recent post as a way of identifying problems as they are emerging rather than after the fact, I realize that the concept of democratically run schools, whether run solely by adults or in conjunction with student youths, is a radical concept. As I understand the typical conventional school model today, the governance is much more hierarchical, starting at the state level where basic school structure and policy is set. (more…)