A 21st Century Freedom School
Leader
Petra Perkins
Location
2106 S Cushman Ave Tacoma, WA 98405
We will pilot a Freedom School activity with the goal of gauging the interest and feasibility of creating a longer-term, sustainable program. Our target audience for this project is a multicultural, multi-ethnic group of up to 30 young people in the 7th-12 grades.
For this pilot, we aim to bring young people together to collectively interrogate the meaning and goals of education in a free society. We will guide them to, for example:
The focus on the achievement gap is only focusing on test scores and the metrics by which school administrations are judged, but too many of our children are disengaged in their education. Too many of them are coming out of school with no understanding of the historical context for their day-to-day experiences.