Asheville Waldorf School provides Waldorf education for Western North Carolina. Our unique program features:
* Experiential and Arts-based education
* Fully trained and experienced Waldorf teachers
* New grade added each year through 8th grade * Bi-weekly Nature Immersion Day (for grade students)
* Meeting the child’s Intellectual, Emotional, and Social Development Needs
* Chickenpox
Group hug in a shady glade and a prayer to gaia ought to set things right.
Waldorf education? Why would someone want to teach a salad?
Seriously, by what I’ve briefly read about this educationist ideology, it’s like that ridiculous school in the Billy Jack movies.
The people refusing to vaccinate their children are the same ones who’ve gotten peanut butter banned in schools almost everywhere. Go figure.
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shshhh… you’re not supposed to talk about this stuff…
Say, Chief… how about you tell us a little bit more about the makeup?
of these gangs?
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So, do they know how to weld or put up a sheet of drywall?
An itchy rash , huh? I don’t think that’s an accurate description. I got it twice, once as an adult. It was hell.
You should only ever get it once as a child. If you get it as an adult it’s dangerous without prior exposure. The only way you get it again is viral reactivation leading to shingles (there’s a vaccine for that too).
Shingles is not fun. I had shingles a long time ago.
A leftist would say “look at the bright side it was all natural!”
The pain was natural hell.
On the whole, I’m just fine with liberals not vaccinating their brats. The more of them die from preventable childhood illness, the fewer are left to suck the blood of our own children in the future.
It’s vaccinating savages and removing the limits to their breeding like rabbits I object to.
Plagues are nature’s way of keeping savage populations to a level sustainable with subsistence farming. Whoever thought it was a good idea to give vaccines to savages should have been injected with a particularly lethal strain of smallpox, locked in an isolation chamber and left to die in agony.
Will they shUn the antibiotics that treat shingles when they contact it as seniors …..?.
Shingles is not treatable by antibiotics, as it is a viral disease. All of us who had chickenpox as kids are at risk for shingles. The shingles vaccine is expensive and is also not completely effective: “Can decrease your risk of getting shingles by more than half” and the older you are the less effective it is. My daughter was extremely sick with chickenpox and I wish the vaccine had been available for her.
My wife and I had the earlier shingles shots about five years ago. My wife had a severe shingles attack this last spring and then we discovered that those original shots were only 50% effective. The new shots now available are supposedly 90% effective.
I missed this thread earlier, so I am not sure my comment will be viewed by many. One of my children attended a Waldorf School and it was wonderful. I am very glad she had that experience. The education was much more thoughtful and accommodating of individual needs than the public system. Most importantly, it is not a one-size-fits-all approach to learning. Rather, it exposes children to a broad range of ideas, and incorporates history, arts, languages, math, science and a lot of hands-on. So, Ken, kids in these schools are more likely to know about welding and drywalling that those in the public system. A major part of the philosophy is helping children to learn to think for themselves. It is also experiential, so they try to incorporate a lot of real-world context in what is being taught. It is not just memory work and rote regurgitation. That would surely make them less susceptible to the propaganda-driven agenda in public schools.
Regarding the vaccinations, the parents involved may not have made the best decision in choosing not to vaccinate their children, but (more than many parents), they likely spent time investigating the issue. We are aware of the corruption and deceit coming from many government agencies — CDC is no exception, and indeed there has been evidence of manipulation and misinformation. I am not arguing for non-vaccinating — so much as trying to provide some understanding about why some parents are opposed.
People favouring a Waldorf education are not necessarily leftists — some are. I would say that as a rule they are respectful of alternative views in politics and elsewhere. They deal with people as individuals and foster self-reliance and thinking for yourself.
Sometimes the cynicism on this blog is excessive. There are enough real issues for which conservative views offer hope. We should not be going out of our way to issue pot shots at every person or group who may view the world through a different lens. Better to try to figure out where they are coming from.
Good points Linda. I have been disheartened to see so many on this site do what they accuse others of doing. Adopting a herd mentality and throwing insults at those who do not conform.
To think for themselves would be a novel idea these days so it is easy to be cynical. Hopefully they are receiving a well rounded education and not just more concentrated Marxist indoctrination. At first glance it appeared that the students above were being taught to wail their anguish at the forest.
it is easy to be a cynic. just look around.
stooooooopid fcukin religionists.
hey God, wese all gonna leabe it ups to youse to save ar sorry arses with every stoooooopid mishtak wese can come up wit’
HELLO this is THE LORD.
I gave you a brain for a reason. now use some ‘reason’ to ‘reason’ your way out of the mess you put yourself in.
(closely related to the ‘fergive fergive fergive’ mantra instead of DOING SOMETHING about the abuse so there’s nothing TO ‘fergive’.)
There is a Waldorf school in town where we live that had its funding pulled by the BC Ministry of Education due to the fact that they were not meeting the provincial curriculum.
Now that’s really saying something. You have to be a pretty useless school not to be able to meet the exceptionally low, fluffy, everyone-gets-a-gold-star standards of the BC curriculum.
They even got a second shot at getting re-instated as Group 1 school but failed a second time.
Actually, in many areas Waldorf schools are not government funded — and many do not want to be because of the pressure to follow the government curriculum. In my view, the curriculum and philosophy of education in Waldorf schools is far better than that of public schools. I wonder if it was the “sex ed” or other public school indoctrination that got them into difficulty. Waldorf offers an alternative to government education –and thank goodness parents are still are allowed choose that option. I thought conservatives supported freedom of thought, freedom of expression. Totalitarianism is for leftists.
Alternatively, the school may have had its funding pulled because it did not meet the government-run propaganda standards.
Maybe it wasn’t adequately toeing the line on LGBTQXYZ indoctrination.