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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At a Waldorf school, a teacher at an Open House asked my child to leave the room so they could describe the philosophy.

It wasn't so much that the philosophy was a certain way, it was that they had a mission and a plan and it was supposed to be kept secret from the children.

My kid was pretty rigid at the time (we were testing him for what was then called Asperger's/HFA) and there were some open-ended developmental rules and concepts (play was with natural objects instead of plastic, snacks were grown right there on campus...) but that clothes with stripes or dots were OK but clothes with letters or words were not.

It was not a uniform, but I thought we have so many rituals already, applying another layer of "if/then" statements to a shirt could make me go nuts and would result in my 7 a.m. battles over tee-shirts.

*Caveat: This is not a dig against Waldorf, it was the the presentation of the structure that made it seem mysterious and hard to manage. I was also really tried and stressed at the time.

Ultimately, my kid looked at the art work and said, "I can't do that. I am better at ______" and we parted ways.

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I did a Waldorf visit when my child was young and I was very open-minded about different educational philosophies. They made all of the parents stand in a circle in a tiny room to go through a special routine of lighting a candle and telling a very specific folk tale in a very specific way. I was trapped opposite the door and I can’t tell you if it lasted 2 minutes or 2 hours.

It was just way too much arcane ritual for me, and I say that as a Catholic.[/quote]

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