In 1970, the first full time Liberation school opened in Berkeley. It was called “The Children’s House.” At the end of this article is written “Liberation School 9th & Hearst Berkeley” which indicates that the teacher who wrote it, Val Douglas, taught at the Children’s House. Douglas describes providing children breakfast in the morning, the enthusiasm of students to learn and exchange ideas about “true revolutionaries and everyday people who the children can relate to.”
The basic curriculum was arranged according to the days of the week as follows: “Monday is Revolutionary History Day, Tuesday is Revolutionary Culture Day, Wednesday is Current Events Day, Thursday is Movie Day, Friday is Field Trip Day.”
Douglas says that children exercised every day and marched to songs about police brutality.She also highlights that the school sought to teach children class solidarity with other poor people around the world, even if they were “a different race than they.”
Douglas ends the article by stating that the future is in the hands of the children as they will be the ones to carry on the struggle for liberation.
