In Denmark, parents are allowed to set up a new school if they are dissatisfied with the school in the area where they are living. Although these schools have to follow the national courses, they are allowed a lot of choice in deciding what to teach. Some of these new schools are called “small schools” because usually the number of pupils in them is only sixty, but a school has to have at least twenty-seven pupils.

　　在丹麦，父母允许设立一所新的学校，如果他们不满意学校所在地区的生活。虽然这些学校必须按照国家课程，允许他们很多的选择，决定教什么。一些新的学校被称为“小学校”，因为在他们的学生人数仅为六十，但学校至少有二十七名学生。

　　Cooleenbridge School in Ireland, is a small school similar to the ones in Denmark, it was set up by parents who came from Holland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, England and other parts of Ireland. They came because they wanted to live in the countryside and to grow their own food. In June 1986, they decided to start a school. They managed to get an old, disused primary-school (小学) building and started with twenty-four children aged from four to twelve.

　　在爱尔兰cooleenbridge学校，类似于丹麦的一个小学校，它是由父母来自荷兰，德国，捷克斯洛伐克成立，英国和爱尔兰的其他部分。他们来是因为他们想住在农村，种植自己的食物。1986年六月，他们决定开办一所学校。他们设法找一个旧，废弃的小学(小学)建筑和从二十四岁的儿童从四至十二。

　　The teachers say, “The important thing in school is doing, not sitting.”And so the courses includes yoga(瑜伽), cooking, knitting, kite-making, music, fishing, drama (戏剧) and environmental(环境的) river studies, as well as reading, writing, maths and science.

　　老师说，“在学校，重要的是做，而不是坐着。“因此，课程包括瑜伽(瑜伽)，烹饪，编织，制作风筝，钓鱼，音乐，戏剧(戏剧)和环境(环境的)河的研究，以及阅读，写作，数学和科学。