The school that this school is based on (Sudbury Valley School)is very successful and based on a wonderful idea. I would be VERY careful in checking this school out before deciding to send your child there. I wanted to respond to the posts regarding Diablo Valley School.
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Plus the school is a few blocks from BART. You can check out their website at I'm not sure where you are coming from, but I commute to Concord from Oakland every day and it's not a bad commute (20 minutes). There is a ''Sudbury school'' in Concord called Diablo Valley School. Their website is Good Luck CJU in Concord The school is located about a block from the downtown Concord BART station. It also sounds like they are pretty flexible with their tuition rates too. I don't have direct experience with it, but a close friend has her kids there and they all really love it. There is a democratic/Sudbury type school in Concord called Diablo Valley School. Re: Looking for democratically oriented schools I have two other kids who are thriving in the public schools, but I think that the same approach does not work for all kids. It might be the right choice for a lot of other kids, too.
Having a kid who is very bright, has consistently been at grade level or above, and has always hated school and gotten terrible grades, I think it's the right choice for him. At any particular point in time, a kid could be way behind in some subjects and way ahead in others, but they finish school with the knowledge and life skills they need, which are acquired in a spirit of curiosity and the based on the child's own motivation, rather than by following an imposed curriculum and doing one's work to get a good grade and/or please the teacher. If what they want to do requires college, they can choose to learn what they need to to score well on the SATs.
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The point is that kids learn, over time, what interests them, how to manage their time, what they want to do with their life, and what knowledge/skills they need in order to accomplish their goals. I think this misses the entire point of a Sudbury School, which is not to teach material at a particular grade level, but to allow the child to indulge his/her curiosity.Īt DVS, a kid could spend all of 5th grade learning about Greek history/culture/language if they chose (as well as the the social learning that takes place just being part of a Sudbury community), and needless to say they'd have missed what other kids learned in 5th grade. The review noted that her brother had to repeat a grade after spending a year at DVS. I saw the archived post about DVS and I wanted to respond to it, since my son attends the school and so far it seems like a perfect match for him. Better not to put the child in this dilemma. The student will sense your conflict and will be torn between pleasing you and doing what is right for him/her. If you cannot do this, then you as a parent will experience nothing but disappointment in a Sudbury School system and are better off in compulsory schooling. If you can trust that your child knows what is best for him/her, then your child will grow at his/her own pace to make you proud.
The students correct internal timeline will never match your ambitions on your child's behalf. The school fosters individuality in the student, where each student intuitively knows when it is time to learn a specific skill. Warning - While this school is right for every student, it is not right for every parent: If you are a helicopter parent with a project child, both you and your prodigy will suffer. In hind sight we should have put her in this school from day one and not waited until traditional compulsory school broke her joy of learning. Outside of school she takes on responsibilities and leadership roles with a "Can do" attitude. My Daughter has been a student at Diablo Valley School for 4 years, this has been an absolutely magic experience, we have seen a girl who dreaded going to school blossom into a young woman, mature and wise beyond her years, who leads by example and is delight to everyone.
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