Where is Waldorf schools in Croatia?

Why aren't public schools simply modeled off of Waldorf schools?

• Since Waldorf schools inspire growth and children learn and retain more both hands on and intellectually why don't public schools just at least attempt to duplicate the waldorf experience? Is it because of money? Extreme behavior problems or ruined minds of the deprived extreme disaadvantaged? Why?

• Answer:

  Because Waldorf, although it presents itself as a hands on, arts based academic program, is really a religious evangelistic movement. Everything in Waldorf is designed to lead the child through the different stages of it's founder's Rudolf Steiner's visions of reincarnation. This in no way belongs in a public school, especially when they mislead parents as to what they really are and believe. Additionally Waldorf is so much out of sync with "real world" and state expectations that children who go through their programs are woefully behind academically, as well as out of touch with a good deal of reality and rational educated thought. For example many Waldorf teachers believe that an ancient Babylonian devil called Ahriman is especially present in electronic media such as computers and the Internet. Therefore, all forms of electronic media are banned from Waldorf schools.http://www.openwaldorf.com/anthroposophy.html Since an important component of public education today is technology education, children in Waldorf settings are completely at a loss in this area. Sadly though, technology education is not the only place they are at a loss. They are also behind in reading, writing and math. As far as science and history go, well, although Waldorf educators talk a good talk about integrating the arts into these areas, what they don't tell you is that the actual concepts that the children are being taught.are out of date at best, occultic nonsense at their worse. For example the children are taught that Lemurians, Atlanteans, and Aryans are root-races of humanity. (Lemuria and its existence was a big theory in science 100 years ago, but has since been proven wrong by modern scientific methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_%28continent%29#In_popular_culture. Yet since Waldorf teachers believe that Rudorf Steiner had clairvoyant visions about it, it is still taught to children in Waldorf schools today as a complete and irrefutable fact. --------------------------------------… I completely agree with imparting a love of learning, but it doesn't have to be done at the expense of knowledge. (see here for multi-modality, integrated education that doesn't dumb down their curriculum www.montessorianswers.com) Additionally, I have a problem with teaching religion, as well as outdated and inaccurate information in general, but specifically in the public schools. More so, I have a great problem with people lying to parents about their doing so. And just because SOME children catch up at age 11, doesn't mean that most do, especially when they are low income and don't have access to the resources to help them "catch up". All the recent research shows that low income children are behind by age 3 because of their lack of exposure to academic subjects and thinking, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6740139.stm) keeping them behind, by continuing to not expose them to the things their peers are exposed to, and then expecting them to magically "catch up" at 11 is not only ludicrous, but harmful, both to the child and society in general