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Children's book. Read in 1989-1994. Children did not go to school if they did not want to.
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Oct 06, 2021 03:30PM
Children's book. Read in 1989-1994. Children did not go to school if they did not want to. They only learned about things that were interesting to them.
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Is this a picture book or a child's novel?Was it set in the modern day?
Who is the main character? Boy or girl? Age?
I think it was a child's novel. It was set in the modern day. I cannot remember who the main character was, whether male or female. Although i think the characters in the story were under the age of 10.
I noticed your profile says you're in Barbados.Did you read the book in Barbados? Do you think it was set there? If not, what country did it seem like it took place in?
Yes i read the book in Barbados but the book was not set in Barbados. It may have been set in USA or UK. The book may have been set in the 1970's or 1980's. It was already an old book when i read it back then.
Could it have been non-fiction? Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, by A. S. Neill, is about a school in the U.K. where children only went to classes when they wanted to, and only learned about things that interested them. Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
It could have been. I'm not sure. It does tell some stories like a story book which i assumed the book was at that time. Do you think there are storybooks based on Summerhill? It doesn't seem so from my quick search.It makes me wonder why this book would be among children's books since i saw the book in a mobile library for mainly children. Perhaps i wandered into the wrong section. Thanks anyway!
I don't know of any storybooks based on Summerhill, but someone might have read about the school and made up a fictional school like it. I learned about Summerhill when I was studying to be a teacher, so other people might have learned about it the same way.
What happened to the kids who didn't want to attend school? Did they stay at home? Was it a day school, where the kids came in the morning and left in the afternoon? What were the classrooms like? Was there one teacher or several? Do you remember them teaching particular subjects?
This one kinda sounds frustratingly familiar, like I've come across something like it before.
Summerhill is what I thought of too. The nonfiction book I read about it - long ago, so I'm not sure if it was the same one linked here - did tell stories about individual kids who chose not to go to class but to follow other passions or just to play outside.
