http://ambival.net/tv/summerhill-and-the-sarah-connor-chronicles Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:20:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ambival.net/tv/summerhill-and-the-sarah-connor-chronicles#comment-25063 Casper Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:13:46 +0000 http://ambival.net/tv/summerhill-and-the-sarah-connor-chronicles#comment-25063 :) Thanks ... I actually wrote elsewhere that I would love to have heard from someone who was really there to know how accurate a portrayal it was, and here you are! hehe ; like, I _wanted_ to believe Summerhill was as cool as shown and as I'd heard even before the show, but it's, y'know, almost too good to be true :) ... so thanks for this comment. It sounds like the BBC really did you guys proud. Thanks … I actually wrote elsewhere that I would love to have heard from someone who was really there to know how accurate a portrayal it was, and here you are! hehe ; like, I wanted to believe Summerhill was as cool as shown and as I’d heard even before the show, but it’s, y’know, almost too good to be true ... so thanks for this comment. It sounds like the BBC really did you guys proud.

]]> http://ambival.net/tv/summerhill-and-the-sarah-connor-chronicles#comment-24981 Michael Newman Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:45:55 +0000 http://ambival.net/tv/summerhill-and-the-sarah-connor-chronicles#comment-24981 I loved your response to Summerhill, I was lucky enough to be a teacher at the school for nine and a half years - I was the science teacher during the Inspection and court case. I was also fortunate to visit the school when the CBBC filmed scenes including the meetings. I sat next to the principal, Zoe, as we watched her being played by Geraldine and the extras being Summerhill children, and the inspectors... We nearly cried. The inspectors had been so arrogant and dismissive, and so unaccountable. To have the CBBC to portray them as narrow-minded officials with no wish to understand the school takes us one more step to making them answerable for what they tried to do. Sorry to go on. For me it is a part of history, and will hopefully inspire children and parents, as A.S.Neill's books did about the school he created in 1921, Summerhill. I loved your response to Summerhill, I was lucky enough to be a teacher at the school for nine and a half years – I was the science teacher during the Inspection and court case. I was also fortunate to visit the school when the CBBC filmed scenes including the meetings. I sat next to the principal, Zoe, as we watched her being played by Geraldine and the extras being Summerhill children, and the inspectors… We nearly cried. The inspectors had been so arrogant and dismissive, and so unaccountable. To have the CBBC to portray them as narrow-minded officials with no wish to understand the school takes us one more step to making them answerable for what they tried to do. Sorry to go on. For me it is a part of history, and will hopefully inspire children and parents, as A.S.Neill’s books did about the school he created in 1921, Summerhill.

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