waldorf steiner

[heninthemidden]

hi,

anyone had good experience of waldorf steiner education system?

SENSES not SINCES (that is just Steiner spelling)

And nope not a clone, same person with a different name as I did not like how the old one got abrieviated and just making sure you know that smiles sweetly

I think the Waldorf mums of whom Barking speaks are the dyed-in-the-wool anthro types, not the wide-eyed innocents who, as you say, were duped into going along with the whole thing.
And I know I, for one, always had standards; no woolly hair or layered shirts, ever.

MANATEEequineOHARA, sorry to be mean, I'm just so cross about the scale of the deception.

I too found out the truth the hard way, thankfully we now have the internet and lots more parents are coming forward. Their game will soon be up.

Nontoxic, are you saying you never wore a dress over leggings or wide linen trousers ever? Not even a jolly coloured quality handmade leather sandal

It is really worrying that so many people were duped, and are being duped right now.

I must type up my letter of complaint tonight actually what fun (well, maybe it will be fun in a theraputic kind of way!)

Oh and I NEVER went in for the leather sandals, (there is a certain shoe shop around here where all the Steiner mothers take their kids and themselves to get leather shoes that actually very often resemble something a clown would wear!) and I most certainly never touched gluten free bread (ugh), BUT I am a skirt over trousers type (please forgive me for this!)

I forgive you I do to!
The funny thing is that dresses over trousers along with sheep, bread, singing, painting and even nature were around before Steiner, they do like to think they have cornered the market on this!

My only dilemma now is if they don't manage to hoodwink the state into funding their schools where will all the obnoxious parents go...?

barking Asked the gnomes?! they would be the vertically challenged men with blue eyes and what used to be blond hair right? Daft pillocks

nontoxic would that be the dyed in the wool rolled into balls of felt things that are oh so useful around the house and home?

manatee skirts over trousers?!? Even on horse back?

barking I think they've used this as a cunning ploy to dupe the bohemian hippies into falling for steinerism!!!

MANATEEequineOHARA, are you sending a letter to the school? They may lose it. It may be worth sending it to the educational authority, or Ofstead.

manatee see, its not just me yelling ofsted in your ear!!!

Thanks for posting the Waldorf Mum poem! It was written by a Waldorf student for her 8th grade graduation.

look into my eyes don't look away from the eyes dont' look around the eyes look into my eyes...

paraphrase of Little Britain sketch in case you were wondering

Whoops I mean Ofsted.

Tattifer, yes 'dupe' is the word. Looking back it was rather like a grand stage set with all the props in place including the figurehead - the 'perfect mother' baking, singing, sweeping, storytelling. I suspect many parents at the school didn't have great parenting themselves so projected an awful lot onto her together with the bits of wool, wood and stone.

I remember practically laughing my head off when someone (who has now more than seen the light) explained why the big aprons were worn.

Children drain your energies. Of course they bloody do! That's they're job.

Erm I think I did have linen trousers (but everyone wears them in summer don't they?

And er I did have some cerise pink suede clog-type things (v.expensive, by Schoon don't you know).

I did get some funny looks when I first arrived wearing hipster bell-bottomed trousers from H&M and a pink hoodie unzipped to show a cheeky bit of cleavage though!

Ah yes, the aprons...must protect our egos by wearing an apron or children will drain it from you! snorts That was a hard one for me to go along with even before seeing the light!!!

I have sent the letter as an email to the chairman of trustees, so it is obviously now saved in my sent emails. I will give him a very generous week to respond...

'Smack the Gnome' eh girls?
Excellent Little Britain riff

I must share all this with my shaman, Naboo (the Enigma)

Oh my giddy aunt, I've just passed a gnome on the drive wearing a big apron and desperately rolling balls of wool into felt. I think he'd got his beard wound up in it all... At least I think that's what the hand gesture meant...

Isenhart, I'm genuinely interested. Are you invoved in steiner schools in britain? Do you believe in gnomes?

Breathe Tatti, breathe! It will soon pass. There. Phew, I had an infestation of gnomes in my garden last week: playing the Bastard Fairies at them V LOUDLY tends to work. Especially 'Whatever' which y'all can find on utube easily. Happy M's Day! You're goin' to have to elucidate with the NI my fair one ...

OMG a gnome on the driveway...I must see!!!! And with all my felting experience I may be able to help him untangle his beard!!!

I am not involved with steiner schools in britain and have no faith in gnomes. If I cared to know where you might be employed, or where your children might attend school, or what you believed in I would ask-but I don't so I won't.

So what the f* are you doing on this thread?