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How did Steiner schools get state funding?

December 9, 2014, 2:32 am
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Steiner education has gained some credibility over the last few years because the UK government has authorised four state-funded Steiner schools. If the DfE approves it can’t be so bad, right? Sadly not so. The British Humanist Association highlighted the problems in a dossier called “concerns about the state-funding of Steiner education” earlier this year. The first […]
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New campaign; STOP PUBLICLY FUNDING STEINER SCHOOLS

December 12, 2014, 6:10 am
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The organiser of a new campaign to stop the government funding of Steiner schools has written this post to provide information about the many reasons why. You can support the campaign by signing the petition and joining the facebook group mentioned at the end. If ever there was a good reason for setting up a facebook account, […]
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Standards in Gloucestershire will fall.

December 21, 2014, 5:32 am
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In the news this week there is a report on the high standards of schools in Gloucestershire County councillor and cabinet member for children and young people Paul McLain, and Schools Minister David Laws both congratulated local schools on “raising their game” and achieving better results in literacy and numeracy than the national average. I wonder […]
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Acknowledging the scale of the problem

December 31, 2014, 7:32 am
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In an interesting comment on “Why” about the Transition movement and its links with anthroposophy, reader Alan wondered whether we (maybe me especially?) have any idea about the sheer size of the problem we are facing, and attempting to tackle, in challenging the Steiner movement. The comment was made on a page not a post, […]
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Steiner-free Steiner free school*

January 6, 2015, 5:18 am
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What are we to make of the second Stroud Steiner free school application? In November the group changed the name of their planned school. They had been a part of the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship as a “registered interest group” for over two years, and had happily gone along with the requirements and stipulations laid […]
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A comment on “Why”

January 10, 2015, 12:16 pm
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It is always interesting (and revealing) to hear from Steiner defenders, and I hope Jo Whittaker won’t mind me reproducing her comment on “Why” here, as I need to answer the points raised. She accuses me of anger, fear and untruths.; there are no untruths here, and my only anger is against the dishonesty of the […]
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Steiner student graduated in medicine

January 17, 2015, 5:58 am
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A correspondent to the Stroud News and Journal this week claims that there is nothing to worry about with Steiner schools –  he is the living proof; following a Steiner education and National Service, John Walters says he went to Edinburgh University and studied medicine, and worked as a National health doctor all his life. […]
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More on mumsnet

January 18, 2015, 12:17 pm
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Some of the worst accounts of how Steiner schools treat children have been removed from mumsnet, but before long another thread starts; on Friday someone working in a boarding school for children with learning difficulties posted their concerns about how much is hidden from parents. As usual the concerns are echoed by other readers. http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/education/2284018-Steiner-schools-Autism-and-learning-difficulties
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Handbook for Waldorf Class Teachers unavailable from publishers.

January 20, 2015, 2:56 am
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How disappointing that the “Handbook for Waldorf Class Teachers” – well-used by teachers in Steiner schools, is currently unavailable from its anthroposophical publishers. At a time when important decisions are being made about the approval of Steiner Free schools, a reasonably-priced source of information has disappeared. The Floris Books website says that the book is “currently re-printing” […]
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“Concept of race will disappear”

January 21, 2015, 9:33 am
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Graham Kennish (Steiner science teacher) has written to the Stroud News and Journal this week to dismiss what he calls the “usual racial accusations about Rudolf Steiner” by claiming that Hitler “immediately closed down all Steiner schools in Germany”. Mr Kennish then goes on to quote Rudolf Steiner;  “In our own epoch the concept of race will […]
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Academies are different?

January 25, 2015, 1:36 am
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My e mail to Joe Evans (Business Manager) and Angela Browne (Principal) at Bristol Steiner Academy. Joe told me this week  that there was no danger of  horrible experiences similar to those documented on mumsnet happening at their Academy, because they have a “different approach” and their teacher, Phillip Wright, is “in favour of a critical discussion about […]
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A warning to parents considering Steiner education

January 26, 2015, 7:47 am
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I am today adding a page to the top of the blog entitled “A Steiner experience”. This is an account from parents who fell victim to Steiner and suffered the consequences. Their child is now doing well in a mainstream school, but the family count themselves lucky to have survived this traumatic time and look […]
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Green party and Steiner schools

February 12, 2015, 8:15 am
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On Tuesday in the Guardian the education spokesperson for the Green Party Samantha Pancheri answered questions on party policy. The fourth question is  interesting; “Do you support Steiner schools?” Answer; We don’t have a specific policy regarding Steiner schools, but our policy aims to replace the existing rigid curriculum with a set of learning entitlements, encompassing numeracy and literacy […]
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BHA on Latest Free School Applicants

February 16, 2015, 11:58 am
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The British Humanist Association (BHA) has reported that for the first time the government has provided it with the  names, locations and religions of Free School applicants prior to deciding which to open. The Department for Education has in the past preferred to keep this information secret, but has been forced to release it under the freedom of […]
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What they believe

February 23, 2015, 6:52 am
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Want to know more about death and reincarnation or how to become clairvoyant – Steiner style? Parents hoping to send their child to a new free school will be interested to find out exactly what the anthroposophists who have designed the curriculum and the “mission” of such a school believe – not always easy unless […]
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Parent views of a Steiner Academy

March 13, 2015, 5:40 am
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Have a look at the Steiner Academy Exeter parent view on Ofsted. This state-funded Steiner school opened in 2013 and this page shows the 21 responses so far collected from the parents of the 111 children on the roll in answer to questions about how satisfied they are with their new school. (click on each question to see the percentages) Over […]
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Leaving

April 27, 2015, 8:50 am
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Grégoire Perra has written about how difficult it can be to remove your child from a Steiner school when you are dissatisfied, – more difficult than one might think. First he describes the difficulties parents face in leaving, then there are practical suggestions to help. Here I have tried to explain his post in English; apologies […]
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We Were Harassed and Bullied by Leaders of the PWS College of Teachers – Submitted by a former PWS dad

May 17, 2015, 7:05 am
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Originally posted on PASADENA WALDORF SCHOOL RECOVERY GROUP:
PART 1 In May of our first year at PWS, my wife and I met with our child’s teacher to discuss concerns including how he communicates with parents, how he treats the students in his class and how he handled a specific incident our child had in his classroom. He opened the…
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More on mumsnet

January 18, 2015, 12:17 pm
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Some of the worst accounts of how Steiner schools treat children have been removed from mumsnet, but before long another thread starts; on Friday someone working in a boarding school for children with learning difficulties posted their concerns about how much is hidden from parents. As usual the concerns are echoed by other readers. http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/education/2284018-Steiner-schools-Autism-and-learning-difficulties
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Sussex Weald shelves third Steiner free school application

May 30, 2015, 9:10 am
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A piece of good news; the latest Steiner Free School bid in Sussex has been shelved, after the announcement earlier in the year that they would be re-applying in the current round this month. The people of Uckfield near Forest Row have been spared, at least for the time being, the incumbrance of another Steiner […]
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