To most people, this school probably looks like chaos.

But at The Village Free School, chaos is part of the equation.
In this “free democratic” school, kids call the shots on most things. They decide what they want to learn, when they want to learn and how they want that learning to look.

The school’s philosophy? The most substantive learning takes place when students initiate the learning process themselves.
“Kids are learning all the time,” Executive Director Scott Nine says. “It’s not just in certain classes or during certain periods of the day.”