What's the point of school?
Excellent question! Read HERE
Excellent question! Read HERE
Why did the Deep Green Bush-School close?
The curriculum was thoroughly-researched and sound, and the delivery was satisfactory and evolving. Unfortunately it ended because of extremely deceitful, manipulative, abusive, and bullying behaviour by a key member.
You can read further details of the running of the DGBS and why it failed in my upcoming book: The Bush-School vs. Civilization: The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary School (The Story of the Deep Green Bush-School) This is based on hundreds of pages of detailed notes, immense amount of conclusive evidence, and a great deal of research (as always).
And a related book: The Survival Guide to Liars: How to Tell If Someone is Lying, based on actual, recorded conversations with a serial liar (Plus workbook and answers for practice).
The curriculum was thoroughly-researched and sound, and the delivery was satisfactory and evolving. Unfortunately it ended because of extremely deceitful, manipulative, abusive, and bullying behaviour by a key member.
You can read further details of the running of the DGBS and why it failed in my upcoming book: The Bush-School vs. Civilization: The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary School (The Story of the Deep Green Bush-School) This is based on hundreds of pages of detailed notes, immense amount of conclusive evidence, and a great deal of research (as always).
And a related book: The Survival Guide to Liars: How to Tell If Someone is Lying, based on actual, recorded conversations with a serial liar (Plus workbook and answers for practice).
Who are you?
I'm Joe Moncarz. I was a co-owner and co-director of the Deep Green Bush-School, located in Clevedon, just outside of Auckland. I was the principal, a teacher, the groundskeeper, and the bus driver. I also did admin and I wrote all school documents and policies. I now run Rewild to Survive: School of Survival Intelligence (www.rewildtosurvive.nz) and am now writing several survival books.
The other co-owner and co-director was Oksana Simonoff, a corporate accountant who owned the land.
I'm Joe Moncarz. I was a co-owner and co-director of the Deep Green Bush-School, located in Clevedon, just outside of Auckland. I was the principal, a teacher, the groundskeeper, and the bus driver. I also did admin and I wrote all school documents and policies. I now run Rewild to Survive: School of Survival Intelligence (www.rewildtosurvive.nz) and am now writing several survival books.
The other co-owner and co-director was Oksana Simonoff, a corporate accountant who owned the land.
So did the Deep Green Bush-School model "work"?
Yes and no. It works only to the extent that the parents are doing their share. The school environment is not the most important factor in their lives. The most important factor is the home life and the behaviour of parents. Bottom line: your kids will copy and learn from YOU, so role model for them. They learn by observation and imitation, which is precisely how we evolved to learn.