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Deb O'Rourke

Writer and artist Deb O’Rourke joined the free school movement as a teenager in 1968, and resolved to send her child (if she ever had one) to a school like Summerhill. When her son turned four in 1985, she discovered that a rare public school that had been influenced by A. S. Neill existed only a few blocks from her workplace. She was an active volunteer parent at ALPHA for ten years until 1995, and joined the school as its volunteer coordinator in 2004, the same year she retired from visual art and entered graduate school. Her Masters thesis is an exploration of the history of ALPHA and its relationship to the bureaucracies that both support and challenge its existence.

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