Experimental School Gets Rid of Classes, Teachers

The New Country School in Henderson, Minnesota [website], has decided to do away with teachers, says this story on NPR.org, and pupils now "spend most of their day in front of their computers, working on interdisciplinary projects".

They have no classes, working instead on projects they select themselves; no teachers, no school bell, no fixed schedule, no walls and no janitors (the loos they have to clean themselves!)

Would it work...? Would it work with your learners...? What do they think...? Sounds like a discussion that might work...

NPR is also a great site for listening material -- and one you could recommend to your learners.