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Open School Dreams By Michelle McMonigal, Class of ‘73 If I wrote a long essay, my memories and perceptions would echo much of the same themes others have mentioned including independent thinking, allowing for differences and encouraging creativity. And, following your dreams. It was a unique time in history that propelled the amazing concept […]
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Open School almost didn’t arrive in time to save my life By Ted Pirsig I was pretty far down a path of getting high, shoplifting, and not giving a damn. Beneath […]
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Open School Changed and Saved my life. By John S Jackson John S Jackson (JJ) and son Sebastian Mason-Jackson It was the mid 1970’s and I was an angry kid with a chip on my shoulder, using physical aggression as a way to express my inner most deep depression about what was going on […]
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Open School Taught Me To Believe In My Future By Kelly McCullough I began my career as a Saint Paul Open School student in the third trimester of first grade in 1974 and I graduated from Open in 1985. The Open School is foundational to who I am and what I have done with my […]
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Open School Experience: “If you can dream it, you can do it” by Joan Arbisi Little In High School Today with Career Pathways students Prompt: Something that happened to you, or that you did, at Open School, that had an impact on your later life …. I have organized my response around my high school […]