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"When Sean Tevlin discovered The Group School (TGS) in the 1970s, he found “a
much needed safe space.” A struggling teen who had dropped out of public school
and battled math anxiety, he arrived at the converted industrial garage on
Franklin Street in Cambridge, MA with little self-confidence after a learning
disability diagnosis.
But at TGS, teachers engaged with him, patiently tutored him and rekindled his
love of reading. “It opened me up mentally and emotionally,” Tevlin reflects
decades later from his living room in Watertown.
TGS, known simply as “The Group” to its students, was unlike any public or
private school. “CHANGING LEARNING, CHANGING LIVES” was spelled in giant
letters on its white brick walls. Between 1971 and 1982, more than 600 students
like Tevlin graduated from this freewheeling schooling experiment, which
combined radical democracy, intensive arts programming and a philosophy that
embraced students’ working-class background."
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