Rudolf Steiner Schools

[Franniban]

Hi, Does anyone send their child to a Steiner School? Just wondered what they thought,what sort of costs were involved, general experience? Thanks

Have you seen this article? Quite interesting.

I really, really like this approach.

Hmmmm, yes into some of the things/way they teach, not into the not teaching them to read bit though, i think that's a shame tbh. A little bit too holistic for me, but still sound really nice and in general I think it sounds like a great place to start being educated about the world. i like their if a child plays with a doll it must be as far removed from a real baby as poss , ie made of wood or something, so the child has to use their imagination more.

I went to a steiner school for 8(happy) years it was this one my mother was the first pupil there and my 2 brothers and 2 sisters went there as well.

Thanks for the comments, will check out the sites that you have given me

A very good friend's parents were involved in setting up the hereford school mentioned (in fact the Grandfather was one of the people who brought Steiner schools to the UK).

The schools vary enormously in their approach, the one in Hereford is wonderful and aware that kids need to go out into the "real world" but the one near us is pretty dire, DD's school takes in quite a lot of their ex-pupils.

I thought of one for DS but after speaking to two mothers with kids in the local one I thought we might feel slightly out of place... one refussed to use a buggy because she considered it was against nature (no other animal in the animal kingdojm carries its babies in an artifact) and the other one, well she grown her own vegetables which is fantastic but picks up her children in a horse drawn carriage. I'm sure this may be the extreeme followers in the school but still is .... scared me a bit...

Though in principle, the system looks great, would have liked reading to be included since earlier but ... i guess you can't have all in life..

Yes Chandra, I can see where you are coming from, a little weird! Made me laugh about the horse drawn carrage though! I can really see from people's comments ont his and the thread about Montessori that it's all about the schools and doing some real investigation. Thanks, morningpaper that article in the Guardian was really interesting.

The RS nursery round the corner from me has horrid premises and I found all the "nature" stuff a bit OTT.

Just found this poem by an ex teacher there called Pete Snow who I know of and who I've had very mixed reviews about. I think it sound pretty dodgy to me. I wouldn't send my kids there. I also lived on a Rudolf Steiner community as a child and can't discuss what happened for legal reasons but put frankly, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

"Ah, you lassies
who make such colourful comics
of your skin!
I’d like to take you one by one
to a quiet place
with a bag of liquorice allsorts
and a bottle of Irn Bru
and turn your bright pages
at leisure
and, like Jimmy and his Magic Patch,
embrace the resulting adventures."

www.plsnow.co.uk/body-art/