• Story, "Highlander School"

• Copy the story for all participants.

Read the story "Highlander School" aloud or ask a volunteer to do so. Lead a discussion of the story, using these questions as a guide:

• How does the work of Highlander School illustrate a parallel approach to resistance?
• How is "community" key to Highlander's approach-both the community developed at the folk school and the communities represented by those at the folk school?
• How does the work of building community at Highlander transform those who participate? How does it transform society and work against racism and systems of privilege?
• What in this story inspires you or gives you hope?
• Have you ever been part of a similar experience?