Steiner education and Special educational needs?any experience

[stripeycat13]

I only want to hear from people with positive or constructive things to say please, I like the idea of my son who has sensory processing problems going to one right the way through.Not having the pressure of exams,sats and having to catch up with main stream which moves too fast for his abilities.He is far more of a doer, a nature lover and creative boy and is wanting to learn formal stuff now finally at 8.He has many clothes sensitivities and doesn't like things too busy/noisy. Its a shame mainstream doesnt accomodate this.Thanks in advance for any replies.

I am shocked to read so many negative comments about SS... Not sure where the SS you are writing about are located, but my neighbours had their children at one and I never heard of a negative think about it. I also visited a few classes at SS in Brighton years ago and a girl I spoken to told me that she moved from a local community school as a result of bullying and she was extremely happy at SS.
SS don't have massive numbers of children to deal with so every teacher must know the pupils extremely well to spot who's being bullied.
The classrooms were large enough so children were not sitting too close to each other when I visited, so the children were very positive about personal space and getting on really well in the playground. I believe that you need charismatic teachers and good leadership of school in order to stump out bullying in any school anywhere. Policies are not worth the paper are written on.
I have my DS at a Local Community school and the number of times I had to go and complain about bullying made me lose my faith in the system. The response I had was: "There is no bullying at our school...only Friends falling out with each other". I was disgusted with the school's dismissive and defensive attitude!... DS cannot wait for the end of Y6 so he can move on. Not point having policies if parents are not listened to and the teachers are rolling their eyes, blaming the child who is being bullied for 'being too timid'...and this is a school rated as 'Good@ Ofstead'.