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ONITSHA— ANAMBRA State, yesterday, joined other oil producing states following the official commissioning of the Orient Petroleum Refinery, OPR, built by the Anambra State Government.
The refinery initiated by the Chinwoke Mbadinuju administration which also constituted its Board of Directors led by former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, is located in Aguleri-Otu, Anambra East Council area of the State.
Oil was first struck in the location about 45 years ago by the multinational company, SAFRAP, now Total Plc. OPR which will soon start full scale refining at the commissioning of the refinery section in a few months time is a 55,000 bpd.
Lauds Anambra govt
The President commended the Anambra State Government for initiating the project and seeing it to completion in spite of the numerous hiccups encountered at inception.
The President thereafter left for Onitsha, Anambra's commercial centre where his private jet marked NAF541 touched the lawn of the Federal Inland Water Ways, in the city.
While commissioning the Onitsha River Port, President Jonathan said the N4.6 billion River Port was unique and a signal for more things to come; stressing that his administration decided to embark on the development of the country's inland waterways transport as a way of exploiting all avenues of enhancing both road, rail, air and water transportation in the country.
Jonathan said: "The river or marine transport must be enhanced and to do it, we need inland port like the one in Onitsha. Our target is to link all the ports by roads and rail so that doing business in Nigeria becomes easy. The river ports must be linked up to other areas of resource. Today, the process is being started and others on the drawing board must be completed."
He expressed hope that well developed inland water transportation system would lessen the burden on our highways which often wear away because of the large cargo plying the roads.
The President used the occasion to assure Nigerians that he would deliver on his electoral promises and urged Nigerians to exercise patience and keep faith.
He commended Inter Bau, the local contractor that executed the project.
…as Ngige, Soludo hail Anambra's oil status
AWKA—FORMER Anambra State governor, Senator Chris Ngige and former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Soludo have expressed delight in the take off of crude oil production facility in Anambra State, describing it as a blessing to the people.
In separate interviews at Aguleri Otu in Anambra East Local Government Area, they said every Anambra indigene would remember the day as it would ultimately translate to enhanced revenue for the state.
Ngige said: "This is a mile stone in the annals of our dear Anambra State because at last, our state has officially been confirmed as an oil producing state. While I was here as governor, my administration invited investors from far and wide when we made public the shares of Orient Petroleum and it was chaired by Chief Emeka Anyaoku at Tourist Garden Hotel Awka. On that day we made a draft of N100 million and promised to make available substantial amount of money when all the paper works had been concluded.
Similarly, the former CBN governor said that with Orient Petroleum, the state was going through transformation in the area of economic and social development.
According to him, "I call it wonderful. It is a great day for Anambra State and the beginning of a long journey towards transformation of our state. Oil can be a blessing and can also be a course. But let it be only a blessing to our dear state. Anambra should utilize such great achievement effectively such that in the next six to eight years, it will not need a kobo from outside to run the recurrent expenditure of the state."
He also prayed that the production of oil would create a friendly environment in the state and urged those involved in the venture to see it as a challenge in improving the economic status of the state from what it is at present, to higher level.


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In 1989, the Japanese Diet enacted a broad-based consumption tax after two failed attempts and in the face of widespread public disapproval. Its passage was all the more remarkable for coming just as a series of dramatic financial scandals had begun to undermine popular support for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, fore-shadowing its fall from power four years later. Kato argues that skillful maneuvering by the Ministry of Finance, determined to ensure stable long-term revenues, was decisive in persuading a majority of legislators to oppose their constituents in endorsing an unpopular program of tax reform. Her careful analysis of the Japanese case holds important implications for the study of bureaucratic power and public policy in advanced industrial democracies elsewhere in East Asia and the West.
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- Standardization of operative equipment reduces costJeffrey R Avansino
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J Pediatr Surg 48:1843-9. 2013..We hypothesize that standardizing operative equipment, and reducing variability can safely achieve cost reduction...
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Dubai Municipality Clinic to continue visa tests for some categories
Dubai: The Dubai Municipality Clinic will continue medical tests for occupational health cards for a certain category of workers but will stop tests for residency visas from next week.
The clinic in Deira was swamped by thousands of workers after the Municipality announced that it would discontinue all medical services from next week after the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) said it will now offer these services.
Authorities had earlier made a decision not to allow municipal clinics or private clinics to offer these medical tests for residents.
The Dubai Municipality Clinic yesterday put up a notice that it will continue to offer health fitness medical tests for beauticians, nursery school staff, teachers, fitness centre, spa, restaurant and food industry workers.
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Other residents who have to undergo medical tests for their residency visas will now have to go the nearest DHA centre in Muhaisna.
Medical staff at the Dubai Municipality Clinic said yesterday the number of people wanting tests has dropped dramatically and that they fear for their jobs. On an average, about 3,000 residents came to this clinic every day and has since dropped to few hundred.
Salah Abdul Rahman Amiri, assistant Director-General of public health services at Dubai Municipality, said there could be some "difficulties" initially but that this has been done so as not to duplicate the services with the DHA.
Senior DHA officials said their 14 centres can easily handle the overflow from the Municipal clinic. Maisa Al Bustani, Director of Medical Fitness Services said the clinics are capable of handling 4,000 applications every day.
She said five medical fitness centres have been allocated for house maids at Mankhool, Khawaneej, Al Bad'a, Al Laiseli and Al Twar.


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It's that time of year when daydreams turn from idyllic beaches to wood fires.
In alpine territory, properties at both ends of the market are being offered at dramatic discounts. The director at Snowy Mountains real estate agency Forbes Stynes, Steve Forbes, said ''properties down here are even cheaper than they were last year''.
A designer lodge on Little Thredbo Road, Crackenback, was seeking more than $1.2 million when it hit the market last year with a different agent. Now the price has dropped 21 per cent and agent Shannon Fergusson, of Fergusson Real Estate, is seeking about $950,000.
The four-bedroom home was designed by its architect owners, Kate and Henry Lance of Lance Workshop, and features in-slab hydronic heating, wood fires and dramatic views of Thredbo range.
In the middle range, Forbes Stynes has listed a double-storey two-bedroom apartment at Lake Crackenback. The property took a 13.3 per cent price cut from $525,000 and now sits at $455,000.
At the smaller end of the scale, owners are also feeling the squeeze. A one-bedroom apartment on the lake, also through Forbes Stynes, has had $50,000 taken off the asking price. It is now $299,000.
The same goes even for ski lodges. The Eiger chalet, consisting of 66 bedrooms and a 100-room restaurant, went under the hammer at The Sydney Morning Herald Auction Centre on Thursday. Owned by the Fischer family since it was built 51 years ago, it had expectations last year of more than $2.5 million.
However, the highest bid on Thursday was $2.05 million by a phone-bidder, who secured the property post-auction for $2.2 million.
The new owner is Lincoln Pike, a doctor who has spent considerable time working in Antarctica.
Buyers were given a taste of some of the opportunities in the snow at a ''no reserve'' auction last August of Melbourne property developer Morry Schwartz's Falls Creek resort, St Falls. Mr Schwartz and his business partner, Callum Fraser, spent $100 million developing three resorts (St Falls, Huski and Silverski) between 2005 and 2009. The 74 apartments and three retail spaces sold simultaneously for $12.8 million.
Sydney's clearance rate yesterday was 58.9 per cent compared with last week's 54 per cent. ''Rising clearance rates should improve seller confidence,'' said Dr Andrew Wilson of Australian Property Monitors.


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The Muslim Brotherhood has called for a mass demonstration in Cairo and other governorates on Tuesday to support President Mohamed Morsy's controversial constitutional declaration.
The protest call could potentially cause further political fallout and civil unrest, as secular and liberal parties opposing the declaration have also called for protests Tuesday.
But In a statement published on its website, the Brotherhood said that they will mainly gather in Cairo's Abdeen Square, not in Tahrir Square, which continues to be the scene of anti-Morsy protests.
Morsi's declaration — which acts as a temporary charter — allows him to issue any law or decree "to protect the revolution" that toppled Hosni Mubarak last year, with no decision or law subject to challenge in court.
Protesters torched Muslim Brotherhood offices on Friday, state media said, as supporters and opponents of Morsy continued to stage rival rallies across Egypt two days after he issued the declaration.
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London, United Kingdom, 2013/01/07 - R&Qs Lloyds Managing Agency (RQMA), part of Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings plc, has just implemented Sequels Eclipse Underwriting software to form part of Syndicate 1991s operating platform which launched in early 2013 - ArchangelComms.com.
Sequel has deployed and tested the new software and it has trained RQMAs staff ahead of the Syndicate launch. Sequel will continue to support RQMA with an Eclipse Underwriting managed service as part of the post launch support.
CEO of RQMA, Robin McCoy says: We chose Eclipse as it can process manual transactions as well as electronic bureau messages as a single system which is important for our new Syndicate. The system is intuitive to use and is logically set out. We worked closely with Sequel to meet a tight go live deadline. Their people are helpful and experienced in our business so our requirements were quickly understood. We look forward to continuing the excellent working relationship we have developed with Sequel.
Michael Graham, Sales and Marketing Director of Sequel says A proven product, speed of implementation, quality delivery and efficient, compliant systems are the keys to a successful Lloyds Syndicate launch. It is significant that RQMA have chosen to launch Syndicate 1991 using Sequels powerful software as a key part of their overall operations.
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Canadian Literacy Foundation 'stuck' by ACLC Toronto
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The Canadian Literacy Foundation believe people who struggle with literacy issues find that they can't progress in life. They have a hard time getting the jobs they want. They have difficulty relating to their children, who often surpass them in reading ability early on. Essentially, they get "stuck". The foundation has used this ad to talk to the illiterate and moderately literate. The hope is that they see themselves in the ad and recognise that there is hope, that there is a way to get unstuck so that life can be more fulfilling. Although this ad looks a little like a music video, the use of shadow and the sense of time passing caught our eye.


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JERUSALEM (Sep. 8)
Former Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan said today that Israel could close the Suez Canal by force of arms and was ready for hostilities but was equally ready to meet the Arabs to work out a peaceful agreement covering any area– "even a single well or a dunam of land."
The former Chief of Staff is campaigning for a seat in the Israeli Parliament on the Mapai Party ticket headed by Premier David Ben Gurion. His statement was made to an election rally of Mapai youth groups, in explanation of statements he had previously made which had been denounced as threatening war.
In the course of his speech, the ex-commander disclosed some facts about the sensational Sinai campaign be directed in 1956, and about the final decision to withdraw the Israeli forces when they were in sight of their goal.
"When it was necessary to decide whether to stay in Sinai or retire," he said, "I was glad that I did not have to make the decision and that the responsibility fell on Premier Ben Gurion."


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I'm using the userforms module ( which is excellent! ) for a membership site. The concept is people create an account, log in, and get given a few questionaires/tests.
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> the site owners need to be able to find a client in the CMS and view the results of forms they've submitted
ideally it would be nice if I could extend the 'options' tab in the form to have 3 options:
> allow unlimited submissions | allow one submission | user can return and edit form
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Mrs. Washington Gets Promoted
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September 21, 2012
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Woodlands High School has made some major and exciting changes this year! To start the new school year off, we have former principal Ronald Ross as Greenburgh 7 School District superintendent, former Assistant Principal Will Washington as the new principal, and previous teachers Kiana Washington and Frank Gluberman as the new assistant principals. Woodlands is starting off tremendously!
One of Woodlands most beloved teacher, Kiana Washington, loved her students and truly treasured her time in class, "I will miss the interaction between the students and me." Fortunately for us, the assistant principal position was granted to someone who truly loved and appreciated her role with students.
Nevertheless, Mrs. Washington did not get this role by just loving the Falcons. As well as her dedication to the classroom, she was also devoted to Woodlands at large. Planning to work hand in hand with Woodlands' new principal, she hopes to make great changes to the school for the better, striving to, "…be apart of making Woodlands High School the best school in the nation."
She didn't even see this position coming! Starting off her teaching career in 1996, at Community School 67 in the South Bronx as a middle school English teacher, she later continued her career at Woodlands in 2007.Although many told her to stay in her field of view, the light never really shined on the opportunity of the position until, "Mr. Ross sat me down one day and told me that it is time for me to come out of the classroom and become an administrator. I realized that this was not just a job offer but a calling from God himself. I have strong faith in God and I believe he has set me on a path…"
Fortunately enough, Woodlands was on that path right along side with her. The new breath of air, Kiana Washington, will ensure that Woodlands achieves "The Best," even if that means not seeing her for your English period. She added, "The teachable moments are priceless. I want to stay connected with the students because I believe that keeping young people around is almost equivalent to the fountain of youth. They keep me smiling, laughing, and even sometimes crying with tears of joy. Students can be the best medicine when you need to be lifted up."
Mrs. Washington will surely be missed in the classroom. Thankfully she will still be seen hustling and bustling around the halls of Woodlands, with her new roll as an administrator!


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A Joshua Tree home under renovation sustained serious damage during a fire Friday night. According to County Engineer Jeff Allen, numerous 9-1-1 calls were received about 9:30 p.m. that a home in the 61000 block of Ala Vista Drive was on fire, with flames coming from the roof.
After determining that no one was inside the home, fire fighters went into attack mode and knocked down the fire in about 30 minutes. The Twentynine Palms Fire Department sent a brush engine to ensure that embers from the fire did not ignite nearby vegetation due to strong winds. Allen estimated the damage to the home at $30,000. The cause is under investigation. Allen reminds residents that California law requires that vehicles be parked a minimum of 15 feet from fire hydrants, and that hydrants must remain accessible to fire personnel.


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I am having the rude awakening to Waldorf. I must eat crow because I have posted things in defense of Waldorf. We recently concluded our first and only year in a Waldorf charter school. I thought my daughter's teacher was wonderful. But I had concerns about the apparent loss in academic skills my daughter seemed to be experiencing in her time there. The behavior problems in the classroom were over the top and completely disruptive. I substituted at the school so I was able to see this problem wide spread, not just in one class. My daughter began to hate going to school out of boredom. She made some wonderful friends there, as did I but the only thing she seemed to actually learn was how to knit. I am glad she did. But we are home schooling this year and will from now on, at least until high school. I am presently assessing her skill level and am shocked at some very basic things that were taught but not emphasized that my daughter is way behind on. Others in the school were as well, and not just the areas that Waldorf admits students will be behind on for a short time. I don't have the energy to break down all the why's even though I am a licensed teacher. I just want to say how disappointed I feel and even betrayed I feel at making the discoveries I am now making with regard to my daughter's education. I will not put her education in others hands again like that. The problems that are epidemic in public schools and charter schools seem to be even more so in the Waldorf schools. I think Waldorf only works at home. Now I must go back to work on getting my daughter's education on track. Feel free to contact me with questions.
Clarification, I'm glad my daughter learned to knit. But I'm stunned at how little of anything else she learned. The deficits are huge. I wish I could say it was just my daughter. But I see our friends children going through the same thing, some finding other explanations. I observed children in all the grades I substituted in with the same problem. I feel really betrayed right now. I did not think a public school could be so ineffective in educating children. I am grateful for the concerns expressed by parents here because I read many of them (in disbelief) as we were starting at the Waldorf school. I thought they were more emotionally charged and perhaps either exaggerations, isolated or related to individual circumstances. Not any more. I observed the majority of the problems and concerns expressed in this thread in a short time there and am very sad to say it's all true. I have so much work to do with my daughter to not only get her back on track but get her academic habits re developed. I had thought the Waldorf school provided a more creative approach to learning, but that isn't what we experienced or observed. I am at a loss for words to describe some of the things, but it would take a better grasp on the functions of Waldorf to explain. I am not giving it any more of my energy or time. I see the danger and the damage. I'm still reeling in shock as I home school my daughter and uncover how much damage was done.
My daughter was a very good student, ahead of her age level before. Now she's functioning at and below grade level and has a negative attitude about school work too often. Her focus is poor. What kinds of approaches have worked for parents in re-engaging your children in learning post-Waldorf?
Both of my kids tried a local highly recommended private Waldorf school for less than a month. That was as long as they both could take it. They put their foot down after that and said "We won't go anymore".They both developed incredible fear over multiple "forbidden" things. It was at a point when my son would scream in fear refusing to go to school just because all his plain white shirts were in the laundry and I would suggest one with a picture of an animal on it (NOT any brand name or cartoon animal, but just an outline of a regular animal). My daughter would sob refusing to go because Monday morning she realized she had nail polish leftovers on her nails and we just could not find where our nail polish remover was. My kids were not permitted to eat their "sweets" one day. Excuse me, I am a nutritional consultant and what they called "their chocolates" were home made tahini balls: tahini with a bit of honey, xylitol, unsweetened cocoa powder and rolled in sesame seeds from the outside! So they did not allow them to eat those tahini rolls ("because they were sweets") and fed them some junky crackers instead! WTF!
My kids would sweat during hot and sunny early Fall days, but they would force them to wear hat and jacket every time regardless of the weather.
The main argument of Waldorf is that public school creates robots who are trained to take orders. Maybe it does with some kids (though I went through a public school and my biggest problem in life is that I can never follow rules or orders). But what about Waldorf?! Whether their rules makes ANY sense to the kids or not (for example, wearing a jacket and a hat when you are sweating), they force them to follow them, in other words, they train them to follow orders--even senseless ones--thoughtlessly without ever questioning them.
I said earlier I wasn't going to take the time to go over the problems. But twice recently I have talked to several friends of mine who either have a grandchild attending or are thinking about putting their grandchild that they are raising in the local Waldorf charter school. I didn't want to talk them out of it, but I told them about our experience, which was not all bad. But now that I have some perspective, I see the whole picture a little better. I feel the overall cultish aspects of anthroposophy are more at work than they should be in a publicly funded school in this particular school. The principal and key staff at the school were very clearly strong believers in the philosophy and imposed their beliefs on the students and staff. Like how they handled children who were injured was not consistent with requirements in public schools and frequently children with broken bones or needing stitches or other medical attention were simply sent back to class. I personally observed this so this is not just rumor. I was stunned. No school should be making the kind of decisions regarding children's health in the manner they did. They did not contact the parents, which was the most concerning part. One child came to school the next day showing me his cast. When I asked him how he broke his hand, he told me it was rolling logs on the playground at school. Log rolling is a common Waldorf playground activity. I had seen him sitting on the playground crying while I was working with another class. I asked the teacher what was wrong and she said "oh he's fine, he just bumped his hand." I was just sick to my stomach when I realized my concern was valid and I should have gone further with it. There were other incidents,but the details will probably reveal too much about the specific school. More than once I reported injuries of students to the office asking them to contact the parents after I realized they didn't inform parents of these things. They were very unpleasant to me about this but I stood in the office and watched them make the phone call. The liability alone dictates they inform the parents. The school district policies as well. Their own personal opinions on medical treatment are not theirs to impose on the children but they did. Various safety concerns that are more common in new charter schools in general were rampant. The Waldorf slant on this just added in a level of inattention and lack of concern. There were a number of local incidents that year affecting school children and the schools response to the safety of the children was less than comforting. I worked the day when the local authorities required them to conduct safety drills and they performed abysmally.
The school was awful to the staff and the staff had no support. Teachers were left on their own to deal with students who were constantly disruptive in class. I learned that the disruptive behavior in classes was epidemic and not limited to just my experience as a substitute nor any grade level. I got to see it in all grade levels. Maybe children learned to behave 100 years ago with this method but it is a poor fit culturally for today's children and behaviors. Most classes are anarchy with some control occasionally.
Academically, I'm very disappointed how weak Waldorf is in academics. There is a big difference between having a holistic education and no education and Waldorf unfortunately leans to far to the no education. The arts part is not arts the way we understand them to be. The science is utterly appalling. Children need to learn science, not just the ancient concept of the four elements. Nor should the ancient concept of the four elements serve as the dominant explanation for all things scientific which is what I'm coping with now when I'm teaching my daughter science. The letter formations they did are not helping her now with handwriting. Their claim to teach advanced math in the earlier grades doesn't seem to be adding up either. I'm having to go back a full year to teach her math concepts she should have learned last year. Reading has taken time to even get her interested in it again. It's still as touch and go issue. She was reading above her grade level before she started there and loved to read. Nobody had to force her. They say the middle school students receive a rigorous education. But I substituted in those classes as well and saw virtually nothing akin to academic rigor. It was more soft academics with pretty pictures being drawn around a concept, singing songs, playing music, acting out plays and hand work. There was not one part of the day they did anything that counted as academic rigor. I don't know where those kids will go to high school but they will not be prepared for high school work. I never taught algebra in that entire middle school and what passed for science was more of an art lesson with some nice ideas. The writing skills of the 8th graders were no better than those of kids I taught in title one schools where the majority of the students were learning English. It concerns me to think about what will happen to those kids later.
The only levels the Waldorf concepts made academic sense is in preschool and kindergarten. It's perfect for those ages.
The thing that I find most troubling is the philosophy that is so greatly understated when investigating this style of education is the governing philosophy. This particular school claims they are incorporating Waldorf ideals into a regular curriculum. But they aren't. They are putting up a show of applying regular curriculum and trying to run as Waldorf of a school as they can get away with using public funds. The most distressing part is they don't want parents to understand Waldorf unless they are fully committed to it. They wanted us to trust them with our child's education without questioning what they were actually teaching. That is a cult not an educational philosophy. They were being deceptive about what they were actually teaching. If you take the Waldorf ideas that are beneficial to a child's education and leave out the negative and questionable stuff, you are left with an incomplete model for a school. I don't know if other Waldorf schools do this. But the one we attended did. I think the school district should stop funding them because they are in violation of too many basic public education principles.
Dear Everyone,
I can't tell you how happy I am to have found this group.
We have had a horrid experience with our local W school, and it has taken us a long time to heal enough to be able to articulate the big picture.
We see now that we were targeted because we tried our best to make the community more transparent, healthier.
WE is the opposite of transparency, as Anthroposophy is an "occult science." And Occult, as we know, means hidden.
The secrecy and lies were so pervasive, that the culture of fear that grew around that was deeply unhealthy and hurtful in so many ways.
Sadly, because we had the fortitude to stand up, they targeted our young child, knowing full well we would leave to protect her/him.
Our story is long and painful, and I was shocked to find out how NOT alone we are when it comes to this kind of treatment in WE.
If there is anyone out there who would like to connect around having been hurt by a WS please let me know.
Thank you,
I wish I had found this group two years ago.
My son has been in a Waldorf school for two years now. I originally put him in b/c of the "lax" approach to early education and the love for nature and outdoors that the school had. I wanted to believe in it. Everything just seemed so beautiful and the approach to learning made sense to me. I never bought into the religious Steiner views, but loved all the other aspects. Also, I always felt my son had ADHD or some sort of mental health problem or developmental delay. I had such little support from those around me to pursue on my instincts however.
My son is now so far behind in his schooling that I feel that we have lost precious ground we can never get back.
In school he was the one hurting other children, being disruptive in class, and completely defiant and disruptive, he couldn't sit still for a thing. His relationships with everyone was entirely taxed and strained to where people avoided us. The teachers did nothing about my son's behavior, in fact, I was rarely ever told. A good day, I found out, was him being in time-out "only" five times. When I got a call one day that he had scratched up another kid so bad that he had marks all over his face I did what I should have done long ago and sought out the help of a good ped. and we are set up to start counseling soon.
My son was just this week diagnosed with ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and Chronic Tics disorder. What was told to me would "go away with time" or reiterated to me over and over and over again was a problem with our parenting, diet, allergies, etc. etc was a bunch of hogwash. He is six years old and can't even count to 20, identify letters or numbers, or write his own name.
I am on the precipice of quitting the school, but feel so stuck. My son really loves his peers and he just isn't academically going to succeed in even a public school kindergarten at this point. Waldorf has been the only school he knows.
Hi everyone. I'm new here. Thanks for starting this group.
My child attended a very Waldorf school (as opposed to inspired) for K and first grade. I'm not even sure where to begin at how bizarre Waldorf can be, and how it can sneak up on you.... just when you feel safe and happy, you realize many of the people who follow or run the school are.... how do I put this.... kinda crazy.... because they have some very, very strange belief systems, totally not rooted in reality, reason, or science. Something we usually take for granted with educators, right?
Cap't Court... I understand about your child being behind. And, unfortunately, we've suffered this last year dramatically because of it. I'm the last one to believe in testing or certain academic levels needing to be met at a certain time, but my child was just not taught anything that was relevant to her age or intellectual needs last year. They only covered the alphabet up to "P" (and it was only in caps). We're paying dearly this year by intensive tutoring (that costs a fortune) to catch up.
Anyway, some of the highlights of Steiner-Waldorf weirdness for me:
1. No emergency plans in place other than making the sign of a pentagon to ward off "evil" (I kid you not)
2. No black crayons or paint
3. All corners cut off of all papers
4. Children must copy verbatim what teacher made on the board, no individuality
5. Lessons taught when a child's teeth fall out
6. Teachers gained a "deeper understanding" of the child by the week they were born in the year, according to Steiner based poems (this did not work for us! Our child was born in a country where the seasons are opposite of Euro or American seasons)
7. Literal belief in gnomes and fairies
8. Belief in the supernatural (yet claim they are not based in religion or faith based reasoning)
9. Their bizarre view on adoption.... the child "chooses" his/her parents in a dream before being born (where to begin with that?)
Most of these things were concealed, downplayed or minimized when a parent would question the staff/teachers about them, which really made me enraged. Don't get me started on the cult-like community.... Luckily, we moved out of state so we did not have to face the wrath that other families have faced for withdraw.
My dd has been out of Waldorf for about 3 years now and, to be honest, I am happy that I pulled her when I did. A lot had gone on that year and I felt like I was at a crossroads. If I let her stay, I would have been locking her into a life there as she was headed out of kindergarten and couldn't recognize even a few basic sight words and such. She was put into a local charter and worked with the world's best first grade teacher. Every parent and child should be as lucky as we were.
Anyhow, she thrived and is doing quite well in a traditional setting. And I am happy that I made the choice before depleting my bank account and my sanity as I was working with her doing Kumon at home to try to get her up to speed. Not to mention that I found my life being entangled into the Waldorf culture and was tired of some of the behaviors of the adults. I remember her kindergarten teacher expressing concern that my dd was singing a rap song at school, at which point, i reminded her that we're black and if she was not singing ludacris' "welcome to my sex room," i did not see the harm as she listens to old school hip-hop like RunDMC at home.
Needless to say, I'm happy to be free and glad to be with y'all!
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They wouldnt like my son, who often chooses black to color with. :-) I avoided all of this because i couldnt afford Waldorf, and they dont seem to offer much financial aid.
I am so glad you have had this revelation about Waldorf and now can see it for what it is really is. There are so many parents who experience first-hand a Waldorf or Waldorf/inspired school not educating their children adequately, incorrectly, or at all; and at the same time indoctrinating the students with anthroposophy while the school emphatically denies that they do so. Especially when public funding is involved. Yet even when faced with the evidence right in front of them the parents just pretend it isn't happening or find some way of rationalizing it. This is what I find so scary and so cultish about Waldorf. The fact that you were a substitute teacher gives your story so much more power as you witnessed at a school day after day what was really going on. I thank you so so so much for sharing all this!
As for my family, I believe my child has finally at age 9 mastered the alphabet - thanks to me and her dad working with her at home. She still messes up lowercase d's and b's sometimes. We have not done a quick review of the alphabet in a while just to make sure though so maybe this weekend we'll have a check in with her. I am pretty sure she is finally solid on being able to sing the alphabet song now, but I will check that as well.
She is finally reading on her own after we made her read to us night after night after night and worked with her with words on flashcards. I would say her level is still a grade or two below where she should be, but the good thing is she loves reading. Which is really great but also is really sad. Waldorf stole about 4 or 5 years of reading for enjoyment from her life by not teaching her. Her spelling however is really really bad. She is 9 years old and here is a small sampling of words and how she thinks they are spelled:
From the samples of her writing I took these words from, there are some words I could not even decipher. And all the places where you saw the 's - the word was not being used as a possessive noun. Just a plural noun. So there you have a perfect example of the spelling/grammar skills of a 9 year old child waldorf "educated" from pre-school to 4th grade.
We think she is ok with time telling on both digital and analog clocks now - but we haven't tested her for a while on that either so perhaps we should. Her math skills I have left to her dad to handle as I have worked with her on all the other stuff so I can't really comment on that.
I am just amazed at how the mainstream news organizations and news magazines have not done tons of stories on Waldorf's mis-education and cult-like environment. Frontline? 60 Minutes? Time Magazine? Anybody out there? I've heard that Newsweek is relaunching in printed form again - maybe Waldorf should be their next cover story...
I agree Luper. I find it amazing that there are not any real news stories out there exposing Waldorf for what it is. I have been doing countless internet searches trying to find something other than a bloq that can provide a real critique of the schools, but I come up with nothing, In fact, the majority of what pops up is all in defense of Waldorf education and put out there by those who adhere to its quack philosophy. I feel so bothered that I kept my child in that school for two years. He is so behind.
On another note, I'm curious if the lack of communication to parents on child concerns is true to all Waldorf schools. It has become evident to me that there were clear and obvious signs of my son's delays from the get-go, his disruptive behaviors was not only a hinderance for him but other children as well. He was too much for them to handle, yet they did nothing about it. I confronted his teacher about his progress half way into the year and she finally told me that she did have concerns and that he was below-average. Why is it so hard to get information about a child's progress, behavior, and development out of the teachers? I feel like everything was covered up. My son had two years worth of behavioral issues that were practically shoved under the rug. He was even hurting his own teacher and yet this was never told to me until I squeezed it out of her! I am just so frustrated with it all because I could have gotten him help sooner, yet they just kept holding onto the fact that he would "develop in his own time." What angers me the most is I bought into it as well. I went to that school searching for a different approach as public school wasn't working. Something that would give us hope that everything would unfold. I loved many of the individual traits about Waldorf, but its philosophy on child development has so hindered my child. Now that we are finally getting him help for his neuropsychological disorders I can see that it never was that my son was mentally delayed, he was merely not.being.taught. and was furious with frustration and boredom. He was being held back and needed a challenge, structure, and competition. Something to where he could shine, but they fueled his behaviors by viewing him as "not fully into his body" and focusing on merely doing motions and movements with him as opposed to a real education.
After having read through a bit of this thread (it really is very long, so I can't quite read everything) I am wondering...are Waldorf schools so very different in America?!
I come from Germany and my experiences with Waldorf have been throughout positive. I have worked in a Waldorf Kindergarten and school for children with special needs and have Waldorf families in my social circle...I have never had any bad experiences. We don't have children of our own yet, but once we do there is no doubt for me, that they will not be part of the public school system and so far my decision for Waldorf was clear even before the question actually ever came up. Now I wonder. Is everything I experienced before not true for America? :(
I can't answer that accurately enrooted. I think part of it could have to do with changing from Waldorf schools to public schools in America, I have heard that Finland doesn't expect full on academic education until kids are 6 or 7. Curious if maybe Germany has a similar view? Here now kids practically have to be reading when done with kindergarten. A lot of my frustration stems from that, my son is horribly behind and transitioning now to public school is a headache.
For me I know that I was very drawn to Waldorf and still like some of its aspects. I thought I was doing the best thing for my child with the approach. However, the individual traits that drew me into the program, and that kept us there for three of his school years, was not enough to prove to me that it is all worth it in the end.
My son went undiagnosed for ADHD and we have lost nearly two years of getting him treatment on that. The teachers, due to their philosophy, would have let him continue on without thoroughly looking at these as major developmental issues hindering him. While I agree that many cases of ADHD can be over diagnosed, there are many cases where it is necessary to seek medication and behavioral therapy for treatment. However, when you are going to a school that has such a flimsy basis as to what is normal in child development, doesn't even see ADHD as real and worthy of medication, and doesn't have measurable academics, nor doesn't fully express to parents the extent of everything that goes on in a school day...well, your child is not being helped in any way at all. We paid a pretty penny for that school and have nothing to show for it. My son is six years old and just today had to be tutored on what the letter "A" is. No joke.
These kids are being sent to school for indoctrination. To live in a fantasy world that doesn't exist and never will. Unless of course, you agree with the dogma. Personally, I would highly recommend you research Steiner's religion before sending your kid to that school, because that will be their foundation for education.
Hm, that's interesting! I actually know a lot about the philosophy - I completed a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher seminar in Germany. And I assure you I am not one of those brain washed people (of whom I met plenty). When they told me about their view of Karma and how it affects our relationship with children I asked them "So you think every starving, raped, murdered child in the world was bad in their previous life and deserves their tortures?" They didn't have an answer for me. I was SO mad at that approach. But for Kindergarten there is a lot of good I can take from their teachings and I simply do not live and teach the things I don't agree with. That's why I have started my own Waldorf inspired daycare - I prefer being able to pick and choose and only do what's really best for the kids and not best for the system.
I think Waldorf Kindergarten (ages 3-6) is very different from Waldorf school. I don't think I'd have a problem sending my kids to a Waldorf kindergarten here. But I wouldn't want to be a Waldorf school teacher, as the cult-like philosophy there doesn't sit very well with me. At least in Germany that depends on which school you go to and honestly I have a feeling the cult component might be a LOT more dominant in America :(
Kind of scary to hear these things about Waldorf in America in general. It's a bit like my world is being turned upside down - I thought I had finally found a school system for our children and now I have to worry again. I don't have a problem with a child not reading, writing or doing math at age 6 - that's when school just starts in many European countries and just because America pushes for kids to learn earlier, doesn't mean I have to agree with that (which I don't, but that's another topic!)...however if a child is behind after Waldorf that could end up being a very big problem :( I didn't think of taking my child out of Waldorf and switching to public school - but if Waldorf is THAT indoctrinated over here, that might have to happen and THEN we are royally screwed it seems D:
Maybe when the time comes I will switch from doing Waldorf inspired daycare to Waldorf INSPIRED school, start my own without all the crazy stuff, keep only the good and send my child there! -laughs- It's pretty sad how little GOOD alternatives there are to public school here. I certainly don't think I can home school...but what else is there!? The only other thing I know is Montessori...but then I'd miss all the dreamy Waldorf beauty, which I'd really love to be a part of our children's childhood. Minus the wonky bits :(
Hm...now I'm sad and confused.
As some of you already know, I'm in the UK, but since reading this enormous thread's few pages, have come to question my original desire to have Juniper educated at a Waldorf school. She, like my sisters, is being educated at home though of course on a far lower level, and fun things that keep her interest avid. I am therefore continuing her education in this laid back, easy going way and wish to thank all of you who have participated in this very informative discussion. Most enlightening!
Sad and confused as well enrooted. :(
I really really liked many of the individual traits Waldorf has, I love their approach to preschool and kindergarten. Though, really I think they could have done a tad more in kindergarten for first grade prep. Seriously don't know why they couldn't incorporate more abstract ways of at least learning letters. I digress.
I really wish I didn't have to feel to pressured to get my kid ready for public school right now. I'm all about not pushing academics until 6 or 7 either, but it's just not realistic in America if you plan on ever doing public school. Right now I'm just not sure how I would make homeschooling work if I could even fathom the thought, and paying for another private school is out of the question. Sigh.
Hope you find a good option!
I am wondering if maybe a half-day at Kindergarten and a half-day home school curriculum might be enough to get Waldorf Kindergarteners ready for public school. Honestly, early reading and math are not hard to learn and most kids pick them up on the fly, if only given the opportunity. I sure know the kids I worked with back in my time as Waldorf Kindergarten teacher in Germany made it hard not to teach them anything! They picked up letters and words just from us telling them stories and singing the daily songs etc. I am sure getting ready for first grade wouldn't be an issue.
It's sending my child to public school that's an issue for me! I don't want to get them ready for 1st grade, because I don't want them to attend 1st grade public school. Ugh! If anyone has new ideas, please share them. I am trying to catch up on the American education system, but really...I haven't gotten very far.
as for places to go for support online, below is a list of resources that have helped me.
it is a long list. i just checked the links and they work. if they don't work after posting them, please let me know and i will try again. i hope it helps.
a worldwide network of former waldorf parents, teachers and students
FAQ's from the above site
definitions and explanations of common terms
a long and amazing account from a former waldorf student who became a waldorf teacher. he is french, and he exposes the truth from the inside. he just won a huge case against the french anthroposophical society
advice for parents
a yahoo group for critics of waldorf education
if you want to talk with someone who understands what it is like to have been a victim of GROUP THINK
This is an excerpt from Steiner's book, (FACULTY MEETINGS WITH RUDOLF STEINER, Anthroposophical Press, 1998, pp. 649-650.) It is required reading for Waldorf teachers in their training.
Dr. Steiner: "That little girl L. in the first grade must have something very wrong inside. There is not much we can do. Such cases are increasing in which children are born with a human form, but are not really human beings in relation to their highest I [the highest element of one's spiritual being]; instead, they are filled with beings that do not belong to the human class. Quite a number of people have been born since the [1890s] without an I, that is, they are not reincarnated, but are human forms filled with a sort of natural demon. There are quite a large number of older people going around who are actually not human beings, but only natural; they are human beings only in regard to their form. We cannot, however, create a school for demons."
A teacher: "How is that possible?"
Dr. Steiner: "Cosmic error is certainly not impossible. The relationships of individuals coming into earthly existence have long been determined. There are also generations in which individuals have no desire to come into earthly existence and be connected with physicality, or immediately leave at the very beginning. In such cases, other beings that are not quite suited step in.... They are also quite different from human beings in regard to everything spiritual. They can, for example, never remember such things as sentences; they have a memory only for words, not for sentences...
"I do not like to talk about such things since we have often been attacked even without them. Imagine what people would say if they heard that we say there are people who are not human beings. Nevertheless, these are facts. Our culture would not be in such a decline if people felt more strongly that a number of people are going around who, because they are completely ruthless, have become something that is not human, but instead are demons in human form…
"Nevertheless, we do not want to shout that to the world. Our opposition is already large enough. Such things are really shocking to people. I caused enough shock when I needed to say that a very famous university professor, after a very short time between death and rebirth, was reincarnated as a black scientist. We do not want to shout such things out into the world."
(Rudolf Steiner, FACULTY MEETINGS WITH RUDOLF STEINER, Anthroposophical Press, 1998, pp. 649-650.)
This is the resignation letter from a new teacher who taught in a Waldorf school, but who had not been through the Waldorf teacher training--something that is sometimes done when a school is desperate for teachers. It was sent to the site, "Waldorf-Critics."
This letter went public when it was sent to the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, and is posted with the permission of the author. -Dan
To The Parents of Desert Sky Community School and the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools:
My name is Rachael Colley and I recently resigned from Desert Sky Community School. I am writing to inform you of the reason for my untimely departure.
I resigned from my position as grade 3/4 teacher because I was unaware that I had been employed by what is, in my opinion, a religious cult, and cannot in good conscience continue, despite my love of the children and my sincere desire to give them the best education.
I love that Waldorf education has a rhythm, that there is a large block in the morning for children to really get into the lesson and that true unstructured play is encouraged.
However, I cannot work in a place where lighting candles at a staff meeting and chanting a child's name (without the parents' knowledge), as well as reading from the "Calendar of the Soul" is done and is seen as normal, and even called a "child study."
I cannot work in a place where the children are told to walk on the outside of the circle because the director is afraid they will "break the chalice." Or where children say verses (prayers) to "spirit."
I am a spiritual person, but it should not be required of children in a publicly funded school.
When this was brought up to my superiors, I was told that they "cannot imagine how I think religion is there." Yet I was told that the chicken coop must be built in a certain way because it, "brings the children's' souls to the earth."
If you have not already looked up Anthroposophy, please do. It underpins everything that is said and done at Desert Sky.
Understand that you will be lied to, and some people at Desert Sky believe that they know more about your child and what is best for him/her than you do. Many (parents) are referred to in negative terms behind their backs, and your children are saying prayers with words that they do not know the meaning of.
There are good people at Desert Sky, people who love your children and also want the best for them.
However, someone needed to stand up and be the voice of what really happens and what is really expected. Sadly, that task seems to have fallen onto me.
To all of the families, especially those with children in grades three and four I wish you all the best.
Rachael Colley
My son is living at an Anthroposophic Compound. Since moving there, he has shed most of his former friendships, all family ties (attacking me - his mother - in a particularly venomous way, rewriting history in the process) and he has turned his back on all of his student debt, which we co-signed so cannot just default on, leaving us to pay everything. He won't even go to the trouble of trying to renegotiate payments based on his low salary because he "does not acknowledge" the financial institutions holding the loans as "right" living businesses, therefore are not valid to receive repayment. I'm heartbroken and at my wits end. I am reading more and more about anthroposophic philosophies and "brain washing" resulting in this type of behavior and destruction of families.
Am I on the correct forum? Any suggestions?
humor is the only way i can continue to reconcile all the disappointment and tragedy that we have had to navigate our way through as a result of our unfortunate waldorf experience, and i hope this helps some of you in the same way.
My son is living at an Anthroposophic Compound. Since moving there, he has shed most of his former friendships, all family ties (attacking me - his mother - in a particularly venomous way, rewriting history in the process) and he has turned his back on all of his student debt, which we co-signed so cannot just default on, leaving us to pay everything. He won't even go to the trouble of trying to renegotiate payments based on his low salary because he "does not acknowledge" the financial institutions holding the loans as "right" living businesses, therefore are not valid to receive repayment. I'm heartbroken and at my wits end. I am reading more and more about anthroposophic philosophies and "brain washing" resulting in this type of behavior and destruction of families.
Am I on the correct forum? Any suggestions?
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My son is living at an Anthroposophic Compound. Since moving there, he has shed most of his former friendships, all family ties (attacking me - his mother - in a particularly venomous way, rewriting history in the process) and he has turned his back on all of his student debt, which we co-signed so cannot just default on, leaving us to pay everything. He won't even go to the trouble of trying to renegotiate payments based on his low salary because he "does not acknowledge" the financial institutions holding the loans as "right" living businesses, therefore are not valid to receive repayment. I'm heartbroken and at my wits end. I am reading more and more about anthroposophic philosophies and "brain washing" resulting in this type of behavior and destruction of families.
Am I on the correct forum? Any suggestions?
please see my post above about where you can go for help. it is a very long list of info!
please look up freedom of mind center on the internet and call them.
i know of a GREAT counselor that can help you navigate your way.
please let me know if you want her name and number.
those two things are a good start.
hang in there,
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Please be gentle with yourself. You WERE doing what you thought was the best for your child. At that time.
Now you know things you didn't know then. It is going to be OK. You will figure out what he needs and you will get him the support he needs.
The most important thing is that he has a parent who loves him and who is on his side.
I sometimes cry over the years we spent at Waldorf, and how we accepted the tyranny of perfection as status quo. I see how that has injured my child (and me!) even now, 2 years out. But he is slowly healing from the judgement and the cruelty he suffered at the hands of power-hungry, spiritually misguided people.
He sees how I make mistakes, and how I do my very best to recover from them.
Please feel free to keep writing here.
Please be gentle with yourself. You WERE doing what you thought was the best for your child. At that time.
Now you know things you didn't know then. It is going to be OK. You will figure out what he needs and you will get him the support he needs.
The most important thing is that he has a parent who loves him and who is on his side.
I sometimes cry over the years we spent at Waldorf, and how we accepted the tyranny of perfection as status quo. I see how that has injured my child (and me!) even now, 2 years out. But he is slowly healing from the judgement and the cruelty he suffered at the hands of power-hungry, spiritually misguided people.
He sees how I make mistakes, and how I do my very best to recover from them.
Please feel free to keep writing here.
I am looking for an Ex-Waldorf person who has taken the Foundation Studies course in the United States.
If you have taken the course, or know someone who has, please drop me a line, and we can set up a time to connect off-list.
Thanks a lot,
The school did ask my husband to send $8500 for her tuition cost, although the mother was receiving special grants due to her inability to work. How can they afford to take kids in for free...do they get money from the state?
The mother of this child has sever mental health illnesses that are documented and for which she receives social security disability. The child suffers from sever anxiety and when she lived by us was getting special help at school for her math skills. These schools in FL only go until 8th grade and then there is no high school. How will she ever enter back into a regular school structure?
This is scary and very sad for this child who has no health future ahead of her.
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