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St. Petersburg Free Skool goes 2.0 listen

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A new, radically different grassroots educational project is taking shape in St. Petersburg. Students are learning life skills, arts and crafts, underground music history class, women’s health and different academic subjects in informal classes.

It is a full night at the St. Petersburg Free Skool: a bike ride followed by a women’s health and a U.S. history class. There are no classroom teachers here but a handful of volunteers who want to share their knowledge and passion. Classes are not ...