Welcome to Commie High

Showings

Virtual Movie Palace Fri, Nov 20, 2020 9:00 AM
Michigan Theater - Auditorium Fri, Jun 24, 2022 7:30 PM
State Theatre - Theatre 2 Fri, Aug 26, 2022 7:30 PM
State Theatre - Theatre 2 Sat, Aug 27, 2022 4:30 PM
State Theatre - Theatre 2 Sun, Aug 28, 2022 4:30 PM
State Theatre - Theatre 2 Tue, Aug 30, 2022 7:30 PM

Description

Welcome to Commie High explores an experiment in public education—Community High School. The film follows its humanistic, anti-establishment origins in the early 70s through its survival into the 90s, when enrollment demands for this alternative, small school led to a wild craze of lines, camp outs and convoluted lottery systems. Today Community High stands as one of the last public schools from America’s “free school” movement. Filmed over the 2016 – 2017 school year, we see how the “Commie High” model has evolved to reflect the world around it and shows us what’s possible within public education when “no” is not the standard answer.


This special screening is presented as part of the 50th Anniversary celebration of the school's founding in 1972, sponsored by the Community High School 50th Anniversary Committee. For more information about the 50th Anniversary All-Class Reunion from June 24th to June 26th, 2022, please visit www.facebook.com/A2CHSAllClassReunion.