Welcome To Commie High

During the late 1960s a wave of experimental public schools based on humanistic and antiestablishment ideas began spreading across the United States Community High School situated in downtown Ann Arbor MI and considered a school without walls by its founders was challenged from its opening day in 1972 Maligned with a bad reputation threatened regularly with closures it was called Commie High by some that questioned its merits and proudly by many within its culture Fast forward twenty years later Community High had became so popular that long lines formed to attend culminating in a twoweek camp out in 1996 and a subsequent lottery system for admission Today Commie High remains one of the only schools from this movement to do school differently that survived and continues to evolve and thrive