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adverbly ◴[] No.46254304[source]
This has been the case for a while. Look up Waldorf schools. Screen free.
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hamburglar ◴[] No.46254576[source]
Careful. Waldorf schools have some great ideas but they’re also rife with crackpottery and are somewhat cult-like in many ways.
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derwiki ◴[] No.46256007[source]
Curious about the crackpottery and cultiness?

I’m on board with some of their rules, but no listening to prerecorded music is where they lose me.

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1. hamburglar ◴[] No.46259682[source]
All Waldorf schools aren’t created equal, but things I’ve seen are anti-vax beliefs, hard belief in mystical karmic stuff, a sort of groupthink that encourages conformity and obedience and shunning of people who question authority, and (and this one is really strange IMO) a prohibition on fantasy play among the children (eg you aren’t allowed to pretend you’re running a restaurant and your friends are guests —- for reasons of crackpottery).