Adapadoop@aol.com
Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:23:43 EST
In a message dated 12/11/00 10:58:07 PM Pacific Standard Time,
robertswanson@icehouse.net writes:
> Does SVS offer aloof models or empathetic adult models? Clearly, the big box
> of liturature I got from SVS - what I have read of it - indicates the
> aloofness of adults' relationship to students, except that visitors are
> spoken to as equals. Daily student-created activities are children
> interactng with children with adults rarely included. Exceptions may be
> cooking and the Judicial Committee.
I don't know how you got the impression that interactions between adults and
children are 'aloof', unless you mean 'respectful', somehow. I would describe
relations between adults and kids at a Sudbury school as 'individual' or
'unique': some are touch and giggle and laugh, others are serious talk, and
everything in between and changing over time. Like real life between friends
of varying degrees of closeness - what one would expect when associations are
free.
You can't institutionalize interpersonal relationships without serious damage
to the relationships.
Joseph Moore
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Thu Mar 29 2001 - 11:11:51 EST