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How did Steiner schools get state funding?
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...
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New campaign; STOP PUBLICLY FUNDING STEINER SCHOOLS
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...
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Standards in Gloucestershire will fall.
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...
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Acknowledging the scale of the problem
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...
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Steiner-free Steiner free school*
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...
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A comment on “Why”
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...
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Steiner student graduated in medicine
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,...
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More on mumsnet
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...
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Handbook for Waldorf Class Teachers unavailable from publishers.
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...
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“Concept of race will disappear”
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...
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Academies are different?
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...
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A warning to parents considering Steiner education
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...
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Green party and Steiner schools
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?”...
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BHA on Latest Free School Applicants
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...
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What they believe
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...
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Parent views of a Steiner Academy
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...
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Leaving
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...
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We Were Harassed and Bullied by Leaders of the PWS College of Teachers –...
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...
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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...
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Sussex Weald shelves third Steiner free school application
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...
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