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Visiting Mission Hill (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

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The new Mission Hill School is located in the middle of Boston, in Roxbury. By the time the subway reaches the neighborhood, all the white people have already left the train. The school itself is nestled into a building long-ago abandoned by a Catholic High School. When it first moved in, they found the remnants of the last high school class had never been removed, their effects somehow frozen in time. The streets are gritty, the faces dark, and I don’t exactly feel comfortable walking outside. This isn’t the place you imagine starting a “progressive school”. And when you learn that Mission Hill is a public school, part of the Boston Public School system, it seems even less likely. Yet, when educational reformer Deborah Meier set out to build a modern school, that’s what she picked. They got a special license from the government and the unions to operate it as a “pilot school” and begun tossing out the normal rules and building it from the ground up on progressive principles. Meier has

Visiting Mission Hill (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) Raw Thought by Aaron Swartz Visiting Mission Hill The new Mission Hill School is located in the middle of Boston, in Roxbury. By the time the subway reaches the neighborhood, all the white people have already left the train. The school itself is nestled into a building long-ago abandoned by a Catholic High School. When it first moved in, they found the remnants of the last high school class had never been removed, their effects somehow frozen in time. The streets are gritty, the faces dark, and I don’t exactly feel comfortable walking ou

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