page_title: Fairhaven School (Upper Marlboro, Maryland)
hierarchical_section_title: Fairhaven School (Upper Marlboro, Maryland)
caption_attribution_description: English: A picture of the New Building in the middle of Spring.
context_page_description: Fairhaven School was founded in 1998 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. It is one of over 30 schools based on the Sudbury Model. The model has two basic tenets: educational freedom and democratic governance. It is a private school, attended by children from the ages of 5 to 19. The school was founded by Mark and Kim McCaig after learning about Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Massachusetts.
  Fairhaven School practices a form of democratic education in which students individually decide what to do with their time, and learn as a by-product of ordinary experience rather than through classes or a standard curriculum. Students are given complete responsibility for their own education and the school is run by a direct democracy in which students and staff are equals. Fairhaven School enforces a flexible attendance policy, in which students must attend for 5 hours per day, but can come and go as they choose as long as they meet that minimum time requirement.
context_section_description: Fairhaven School was founded in 1998 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. It is one of over 30 schools based on the Sudbury Model. The model has two basic tenets: educational freedom and democratic governance. It is a private school, attended by children from the ages of 5 to 19. The school was founded by Mark and Kim McCaig after learning about Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Massachusetts.
  Fairhaven School practices a form of democratic education in which students individually decide what to do with their time, and learn as a by-product of ordinary experience rather than through classes or a standard curriculum. Students are given complete responsibility for their own education and the school is run by a direct democracy in which students and staff are equals. Fairhaven School enforces a flexible attendance policy, in which students must attend for 5 hours per day, but can come and go as they choose as long as they meet that minimum time requirement.
caption: Fairhaven in October 2011
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