Free to Learn is a documentary about the day-to-day activities of the Free School in Albany, NY.
Like many radical and democratic schools today, Liberal schools want children to choose how they spend their days.
What makes Free School unique, however, is that it overcomes barriers that prevent similar schools from reaching economically and racially diverse students and does business in urban centers.
For more than three decades, this small, inner-city alternative school has offered students total freedom to learn, part of what may be the most radical experiment in American education.
There are no required classes, grades, tests, or homework, and rules are generally avoided. As a last resort, rules are made democratically by students and teachers, often at the suggestion of students.
