The Warehouse Cooperative School (1969-1975) was an American free school / alternative school which flourished in and near Boston, Massachusetts in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This was a time of experimentation and change in America, in education as well as other fields. Founded by Dr. Knowles Dougherty and his wife, Darlene Dougherty, as a K-12 school because they found no existing school satisfactory for their children, the Warehouse School was in the tradition of A.S. Neill's Summerhill School and other free schools in allowing an extreme amount of personal choice to students. Older students could choose which classes to attend, or indeed whether to attend classes at all; and within that context the student was entirely responsible for whether he or she considered his or her own lea