Life-learning School Win Hearts of Children

　　At Garehime Elementary School in Las Vegas, students have their own currency, postal service, and court system. This "microsociety" teaches more than reading and writing. It teaches life and leadership.

　　Unlike the common teaching-and-learning system, teachers and students here create a united "world". Everyone is a leader, everyone has a paying job, and everyone is held accountable.

　　Their mission is to help people to become responsible citizens of a democracy, says Francis Summers, the school's principal.

　　"Baby entrepreneurs" are no strange phenomenon. They worked in partnership with some of their childhood friends while refining their managerial skills.

　　For example, the school bank, the backbone of all of Garehime's business, it's also run by the students. The instructor said that students' interest and skill had always increased.

　　The school opened two years ago, in an effort to ameliorate the overcrowded school system in Las Vegas. It is considered a success story by any standard measures. And surprisingly, the school had no habitual disciplinary problems or truancy in its first year.

　　Garehime's microsociety is a model for building leaders when you have few resources but lots of passion. However, summers, the school's principal doesn't want Garehime to be an odd among schools but the norm.