Backed against a wall, the visiting Pittsburgh teacher barely escaped a thundering mob of moppets carrying chairs. A second herd crashed by, lugging lightweight desks; then came a teacher, pushing a bookcase on wheels. Instead of vanishing into classrooms, the kids camped in noisy huddles all over one huge room. With teachers hopping from huddle to huddle, the scene sometimes took on the look of a Red Cross disaster station, but it was routine teaching at the free-form grade school in Carson City, Mich.
In its unique, $200,000 school, rural Carson City has gone far beyond the new notion of movable walls...
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