a school where students set the rules
Imagine a school where the students decide what they are going to do in class each day.
they can also not attend classes if they don't want to! they set 1 the rules.
Impossible? well,no. there really is such a school,and is it very successful.
Summerhill School is in a small town in England. It is a private 2 school
with only about seventy students.
Many of these students have learning difficulties. It is hard for them to fit in 3 with other in the most goverment school. The classes there are large and the teachers have little time to attend to students individually 4.
There are rules in Summerhill School,but it is the students who set them.They decide what they should do and should not do in class. There is a small group made up of students follow these rules. The students,however,do not give much trouble. They can choose the lessons they want to attend and not do homework if they don't want to. Strange as it may seem,most of the students do well and score top grades in the national 5 examinations.
The principal of the school believes that its success is due to 6 the fact that it is the students who make many of the important decisions. 'if you give students more control,they are likely to be serious 7 students. Learning becomes more important to them and they work harder at school.'