My wife and I are happily sending our child to waldorf when she is old enough for kindergarten. Public education is an engineered mess.
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My wife and I are happily sending our child to waldorf when she is old enough for kindergarten. Public education is an engineered mess.
This is fantastic... If you can afford it. But I believe public education is a civic duty. We need to fix our schools so all students have access to a curriculum that promotes creativity and imagination.
Education is not a civic duty at all. It is a parental and community duty. If we lived with a better sense of family and community responsibility and less civic and governemental dependence we wouldn't find ourselves in these messes so often.
I'm fine with "community" responsibility as well. As long as we are on the same page that a community has an obligation to educate ALL children I'm cool calling it anything you'd like.
It's more about authority. The first authority lies with the parents and that is supplemented by community/church. But, never government. Bad things happen when government gets involved in education. It's not their job and they have no authority.
Ive heard good things about waldorf I have found where I live a lot of European immigrants who come to the US seem to like it as an alternative.
They really promote a child's creativity and imagination, something that a normal education robs children of