This is the MySpace page for Village Free School.
www.villagefreeschool.org
Phone: 503/788-3935
Address: 5747 SE 87th Avenue Portland, OR 97266
(on the property of St. Peter's Church/no affiliation)
School Hours: Mondays - Friday 7:30 - 4:00
We are a small non-profit private school located in SE Portland, and dedicated to education through an ideology of freedom, democracy, and self determination. We accept students between the ages of 5 and 18, and are always happy to hear from anyone who may be interested.
We need grown-ups too!! As teachers, volunteers, happy visitors, we love to have adults in our community- especially those who are good models of making your own way, thinking big/thinking outside the box, or have skills to offer. If you want to get involved, we'll find a place to make good use of what you have to offer! Just call us!
We seek friends who are creative, love life, have joy to share with the world, believe in lots of ways of learning and teaching, love freeschool, and/or are supercool people in Portland, OR. We also search for mutually beneficial relationships with community partners, opportunities to share resources and learn from each other.
Why Freeschool?
by Gavin Bowes
Freedom Creates Responsibility
Everyone has different cognitive abilities. Some people learn best with visual cues and others with auditory cues. Some thrive on study or written word while others need first hand experience to help them understand. Support for all ways of comprehension is built into freeschooling. Everyone takes on challenges in their own way, at their own pace, in their own style. Not only is this an authentic and non-coercive way to learn, but countless examples in freeschool history show that it is an extremely effective way. Children who are genuinely inspired to learn often progress at an accelerated, sometimes astonishing, rate.
Why are we here?
We want to make our community a better place by giving youth space to be leaders, to care about humans, animals, and earth, to teach and practice non-violent communication, to create networks that unite organizations that can be helpful to each other, to address social justice issues in the neighborhoods where we live. We think that these things don't come with a pat curriculum, but by letting our children develop into creative caring people who can not only solve an equation, but can also solve bigger problems in their communities because they are encouraged to see the world in new ways.We are a non-profit school, and therefore keep tuition low enough to make ends meet, and fundraise to cover some of our student expenses.
