Kansas City FreeSkool

Does anyone want to get together and start the seeds for a Kansas City Free Skool? I thought it would be as simple as slapping together a web site and calendar, but after further investigation it looks like starting a free skool is a little more involved than that. It will probably require a group of people that want to see this through, maintain a web site, get teachers, print and handout flyers, and help secure free spaces for the classes -- as well as people willing to think through the philosophy/vision behind the project. 

Although some of the crossroads infoshop volunteers might be involved with the project, we could benefit from teaming up with others to get a Free Skool started. We are so overwhelmed with the radical library project, and becoming more of a community center, so we can't do this alone.  In the end, i don't see the Crossroads Infoshop as being directly related to the free skool, but rather, indirectly related by hosting some workshops and having some overlap in volunteers that will be involved with  both projects. 

What is a FreeSkool?

The Santa Cruz Free Skool defines themselves as a "grassroots collective effort to create an autonomous, mutual support network beyond institutional control... a radically different approach to living and learning". Their classes are "informal, egalitarian, and are held in homes, social spaces, and parks". They see FreeSkool as a "direct challenge to dominant institutions and hierarchical relationships.  Part of creating a new world is resistance to the old one, to the relentless commodification of everything, including learning and the way we relate to each other."


Interested in getting a FreeSkool started? 
If you'd like to get something like this started in Kansas City, then please send your name and contact information (email and phone) to crossroadsinfoshop@gmail.com. We'll be contacting people in the near future to arrange a meeting date and time with interested folks. 

Stephanie, infoshop volunteer