APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT is a featurelength documentary about The Teddy McArdle Free School where classes are optional and rules are made by democratic vote Summerhill founded 90 years ago by A S Neill was the first free school now there are more than 200 worldwide Approaching the Elephant chronicles a free school in the making spanning two years from Teddy McArdles first day when there were no rules or classes through the changing of the schools director and the expulsion of a student by democratic vote to the last day of the second year APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT is an intimate portrait of a small group of people from a range of educational backgrounds come together to forge a place where children are treated as equals at liberty to spend their days however they please
