Pop Wuj Community

The school is owned and operated by a teachers' cooperative whose job assignments include teaching, administration, direction of projects, direction of extracurricular activities such as field trips, movies, and lectures, supervision of host families, and making teacher and family assignments. These cooperative members and auxiliary teachers also perform all the necessary day-to-day chores—from sweeping the floors to rewiring the lights. The students usually find themselves sharing in these tasks voluntarily. Pop Wuj has very much a community atmosphere: we all get to know each other, and we try to make the school a "home away from home" for our students.

Our maximum capacity is now 32, but we often have fewer students. Our students range from preschool children who study with their parents to retired persons in their seventies. The average summer student is college-aged, but there are frequently many others of all ages. We do accommodate families and are able to teach children, depending on their ages. We suggest you house together if your children are young. No one will be admitted as an unaccompanied minor (under age 18) unless he or she will be 18 within the calendar year and has written permission from parents.