The Meeting at Summerhill serves two functions. It decides on the Laws that govern the community and it resolves problems between people. Anyone can bring a law for approval to the meeting or suggest an alteration to an existing one; anyone can bring up another member of the community in a Tribunal case. There is…
Some people find the system of fining people at the Meeting in Summerhill problematic. This post describes how a typical meeting case might go and discusses what kind of punishment the fine might really be.
Beddies Officers Summerhill is a boarding school. In this series of Summerhill Basics articles I have been describing how committees work at the school and today I am going to describe what Beddies Officers do. Beddies Officers are members of a committee. I am not going to describe how the book goes around for Beddies…
