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What I actually want to do is throw @stripe Atlas, @LambdaSchool & Sudbury Valley into a blender, bottle it, and send to every parent or teacher who’s tired of watching bright, sensitive children & teens fall off the assembly line and be left where they fall until they age out
I bought the Sudbury school starter kit, which consists of dozens of books, CDs, *printed collections of emails* & seemingly random files. Small portion pictured here. This all now lives in stacks on the shelf above my guinea pigs. I want this to be Atlas-ified & Lambda deliveredpic.twitter.com/gtWRKI5M07
I cannot read a giant binder of printed email threads from 2002. I just can't do it. I'm not that strong.
I have a hard time believing this is *that* hard. Bring some kids together somewhere with a bunch of computers, books, & cool stuff to do, provide enough adult supervision to help with particularly tricky stuff & prevent fingers from getting burnt off, and let them have at it!
Start with the Sudbury package, condensed to a searchable format that can be consumed in <10 years. Atlas-ify it to get started in an organizationally sound way & keep legally compliant. Lambda-fy it to provide tracks for kids who outpace the adults around them in tech, etc.
I'd add something like http://repl.it to the mix. Kids quickly do amazing things with it
Thanks for the shoutout! Last I checked @LambdaSchool uses @replit as part of their curriculum and at least one of the kids building on @replit uses @stripe to sell software 
Mason, we're very much interested in this idea. Want to chat? amjad@repl.it
I ran a school for six years and quit when I realized it would be easier to build Sudbury-esque from scratch than to modify an existing institution.
I may be missing something, but the biggest challenge I've found in launching a school is the startup capital. Even for a charter school that will eventually get public funds, the first 6-18 months is the big hurdle.
Unless you have parents who can do the supervision for free, you have to pay at least one person, have a room if not a building, and equip it.
I went to Sudbury Valley from 6 to 10. I loved it, but in retrospect a lot of the people who stayed through 18 were not well served by it. I admit that spending your early teens LARPing and chain smoking could be fun, but I knew HS age people who couldn't read!
I did learn how to make a hypercard stack and roll a D&D character before I could read, though - nerds are definitely the people who thrive in Sudbury Valley schools. People with learning disabilities, not so much.
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