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Rudolf Steiner

Steiner Free Schools Transferring to Hindu Academy Trust

You will recall that the government in the UK has ordered emergency inspections into all UK Steiner Schools, whether they are private schools, Academies or Free Schools. This was prompted by appalling safeguarding failures at a number of these schools which suggest a common pattern inherent within the Steiner system. Three of Michael Gove’s new Free Steiner Schools (Frome, Exeter and Bristol) have been deemed to be unable to correct their own failings and management is being transferred to a multi-academy trust. Frome was the first Free school to be set up after lobbying from the Rees-Mogg family. Avanti Schools [read more...]

Rudolf Steiner

Steiner Academy Exeter is an “Inadequate School”.

Ofsted have published their inspection report into Gove’s Steiner Academy Exeter and it is about as damning as you can get. “Leadership is dysfunctional at every level in the school.” “Leaders have failed to ensure [read more...]

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The Meaning of the 10:23 Homeopathy Campaign.

by Andy Lewis in featured 48

In the last few days, a new campaign has been launched with the aim of showing that homeopathy is an ‘absurd pseudoscience’ and that Boots the Chemists should not be selling these sugar pills to the public as if they were genuine medical products. The ‘10:23’ campaign, as it is [read more...]

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What Every Parent Should Know About Steiner-Waldorf Schools

by Andy Lewis in Bad Charity 478

You may know my feelings about Steiner/Waldorf Schools*. Most importantly, that prospective parents are not being told about the occult foundations of the Steiner philosophy. You may think that the mystical, spiritual and esoteric movement behind Steiner schools might be a very important factor in deciding whether your children should [read more...]