Flying Squads
Where Youth Rights Take Flight
Flying Squad: A Documentary
A short documentary on the Brooklyn Flying Squad made by one of the young people in the Squad, James Khost (15).
Flying Squads
Where Youth Rights Take Flight
Bribe Children and Call Them Stinky
“Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Everybody’s serious but me.” –Allen Ginsberg I remember my father telling me a story about a criminal psychology course he took in college. Apparently the professor posed the question to the class: why do you…
Seeding Liberated Futures: Antonio Buehler
Austin Flying Squad Facilitator Antonio Buehler was recently interviewed by Grounded Futures. “We’re not trying to hack the system in our unschooling – we’re trying to burn it down.” Antonio founded Abrome to support the liberation of children and fundamentally…
Flourishing Education: Flying Squads
From the podcast: I am so happy to share this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with Alex Khost. He talks about Flying Squads, the project he is currently working on. Alex is a father and Youth Rights advocate. He is the Editor-in-Chief…
What are Flying Squads?
A video explaining Flying Squads. Flying Squads, based in Self-Directed Education, youth liberation, and unschooling, abolish the lines of distinction of adult and youth spaces by intentionally playing & existing in the public without predetermined destinations or materials.
Flying Squads 2020
The facilitators of the Flying Squads old and new across the country wrote up year end summaries of each of our communities. We hope you enjoy them.
Good times we had in 2020
When I first learned of the existence of the Flying Squads during May 2020, I immediately loved the idea and felt that a Flying Squad would fill a need here in our homeschool community in Seattle. I was thinking of…
Close school doors through February: going remote or going outdoors are the only two responsible options
In early March with an eye on the quickly rising Covid-19 case count and death toll in northern Italy; educators, administrators, and politicians were debating what schools should do to help stem the inevitable tide of infections coming to the…
The humbling experience of busking for the first time
When Abrome decided to launch an Austin chapter of Flying Squads, we hoped to be joining a fun, liberatory, and supportive community of Flying Squads from across the country (and someday the world!). What we didn’t expect was how seriously…
Just Ask
After a long bus ride to and from Gresham (more on that here) someone pointed out a fabric store just a few blocks from our typical morning meeting place. “I’ve always wanted to go to a fabric store…” one of…