German free school teaches without grades, timetables or lesson plans

It can feel wrong, to new parents, to send their five- or six-year-old out to get processed through the conventional-education machine. The kid has had a free-form, unstructured life up until that point. That’s what the parents are used to.

But American parents who send their kids to weird alternative schools like this usually seem to end the experiment long before the oldest kid turns 18.