Sudbury & Sustainability: Environmental Responsibility

The theme of this past Monday's walk-and-talk was a look at the environmental responsibility engendered by the Sudbury model. It's part of October's larger theme of how the Sudbury model relates to Kingston's 4 pillars of sustainability.

Environmental responsibility requires a broader culture of responsibility, and it requires clear limits to behaviour.

Sudbury-model schools have a culture of responsibility: Students are responsible for their own education, and responsible for following the school's behaviour rules.

Sudbury-model schools have clear limits to behaviour. At my recent visit to the original Sudbury-model school, a student was found to have littered, and the consequence was that she was responsible for emptying the school's garbage cans at the end of the day.

Walk-and-talks meet Monday at 7:00 in front of City Hall, and we begin walking at 7:15.