What if everything we think about school is wrong?
"It's not real."
"Yes it is."
"It's kind of hard to get the concept through to people because often they think it's some kind of joke or something."
"You mean students get to decide what they do?"
"Having to explain the school is very challenging."
Voices from the New American Schoolhouse explores life outside the usual educational box. Narrated exclusively by students, the film chronicles life and learning at the Fairhaven School in Upper Marlboro, MD which practices an undiluted form of freedom and democracy that turns mainstream education theory on its head. Filmmaker Danny Mydlack enjoyed unrestricted access over a two-year period to produce this candid and unblinking encounter with kid-powered learning. This movie is for anyone who ever went to school and imagined something better.