About IDE | Activities | Database | Schools | IDEC | Links | Forums Berlin applies for IDEC in 2005 Dear IDECers, I'm not sure about the formality to decide about hosting an IDEC - and it is more than a mere formality: Some poeple in Berlin have discussed a while and would be proud to host the IDEC in 2005. We are an organizing committee consisting of people of two different organizations. One is the association "Netzwerk SPIEL/KULTUR" what means a "network for play and culture". The children's rights group KRÄTZÄ is a part of this association. We fight since more than ten years for human rights for children, a central topic is since the beginning the school system. I'm a member of this group and attended the IDEC in Albany/Troy last year. The other partner is the "Schule für Erwachsenenbildung", what is: School for Education for Adults. It has democratic structures even though the students mainly want to and have to learn the things necessary to pass the school leaving examination. They decided in a school meeting to support IDEC after having discussed the proposal. Afterward the organizing committee discussed some rough details - enough to take over the risk and the chance to apply for the IDEC. One should know that officially accepted democratic schools for young students - as far as we know - do not exist yet in Germany. Some time ago I received some private mails from Jerry and Dana and Issac - all wellknown here on the listserve - who asked me to reconsider my decision NOT to host the IDEC. This is done now. We are very curios about your detailed comments, questions, suggestions - and decisions.      Mike Weimann and the other members of the BerlinIDEC-committee. home