Longhouse School

Start here, “A Tour of the Longhouse School”!

Start at this link. It’s more than a vision statement–perhaps a “vision book” is a better description! It takes form as a school tour for a prospective mother and her son who are seeking a school that could better support her African American child with unique needs.

The story is told in the format of a plot summary to a new Netflix hit series, an “Abbott Elementary” set in an isolated rural community and populated by mainly Indigenous and other POC children, their parents, and their teachers.

However, maybe it will take shape as a Newbery Award book where a private school, based on the resiliency of the prehistoric Haudenosaunee (“People of the Longhouse”), is imagined as a blueprint for a restructuring of American P-12 education.

The 40-and-counting posts on this blog reveal the charter two classes of resilient and self-directed children learners driven by “the will to achieve“!

Predating the cited “Vision Book” and the posts that followed, there are hundreds of Reddit posts by one of the school’s co-directors, u/GuyAgiosNikolaos (“Guy”), that feature the evolution of his thinking about P-12 education. A second Reddit community (r/LoHeidiLita) follows the autodidactic learning paths of four highschooler-aged teens and some of their friends. Wouldn’t many of today’s students, much like them, also want to see learning as risk-taking, view the school day as 24/7, and open the classroom safely to the community?

Here you will find other posts about the co-founders and teachers, themselves victims of both individual and generational trauma, who are determined to create an educational program for children who have lost their voices. Let’s thaw the frozen rivers of intellect for all students!

There are many side stories. Read about the exhaustive efforts by (SHHHH!!!) a polyamorous family in MAGAville who dreamed, founded, and financed the school. Oh, there’s the formation of an all-girls rock band rooted on Frank Sinatra and the Great American Songbook. And something really strange: the blending of an Ultra Orthodox Hasidic community, West Africans, Nicaraguan immigrants, and military cultures. It seems that Cupid has taken special interest into the characters who have the knack of finding forever love at young ages.

Not enough spice for you, dear Readers? We have polyamorous, bisexual, and lesbian love. There are discussions about hypersexuality, psychiatric dissorders, addiction sobriety, trauma recovery, Indigeneous food, child-rearing, and financing “the new economy.”

What is the geographic tag? For very personal reasons, some of the characters have to maintain strict anonymity. They leave breadcrumbs that they are in Western New York. Maybe Ontario? Western PA or Western Mass? Texas and its environs are nice, too. So are Brooklyn and the Bronx.

(FULL DISCLOSURE and PRODUCT WARNINGS): Most of the educational content on the first Reddit site is interwoven into a discussion about Nichiren Buddhism–and readers should feel no guilt about skipping over things that are not of interest. On the second site there is a lot of typical and atypical teenager stuff. Words to the wise, just skip over the stuff that doesn’t interest you.

Chronologically, the posts are events, perhaps fictional or gaslit, that describe the implementation of the vision after the vision book linked above as the school opened up for first and second grade students in the 2025-2026 school year.

Readers: if you get lost in the woods or fall into a trap, don’t worry. “The Tracker” Justin Hartley is on 24/7 call to rescue you.