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Ohhh yeeees Steiner kid here, I went to a succession of Steiner schools in the uk and now I'm in my last year at one in germany...the uk steiner time was my childhood in paradise I swear, I play the recorder almost daily now for pure JOY, sing them steiner songs when I feel nostalgic and I still build fairy houses and collect sticks
I went from from the most academic school in my region (for my age), and then I transferred to a steiner school and there polar opposites! I throughly enjoy steiner more and my days are just more happy in general now. I really recommend steiner schools :)
You came up in my recommendations because I’m currently in preparations to homeschool my child, Waldorf style. Both videos are hilarious and I’m even more excited to start
Things I remember: Recorder Fountain pens Silks Weird hippie songs Kids on strange diets No Tv talk Wax Crayon No video games No saying something bad about the school Knitting Cross stitch Bread Verse before we eat ( despite not being Christian) Saying Christian things Specific pencils Birthday celebrations Birthday verses Borders Strange ass festivals for each season Bees wax No brands No writing on clothes for the younger kids No black tops Yoga Old fashioned desks Shading everything Hippies A weirdly large amount of anti vaxers Morning circle No going ahead so those two kids don’t feel pressured 🙄 Having to make everything look nice even if it was maths No reading above a certain skill level so kids don’t feel left out 🙄 Class names. My class was called the Minstrels
It all sounds very new age and 'knit your own yoghurt' to me. Did you find it hard to settle into mainstream school/go to college/get a job after Steiner school?
@@stephthestar90 I did, I just couldn’t relate to people, I couldn’t read for quite some time, and every time I saw a black crayon I thought it was going to burn a hole in my hand if I picked it up.
@@gilllarr9285 Sorry to hear you had a tough time. What career path did you eventually choose? And how did you find learning to use technology and the internet after leaving Steiner? Was it difficult?
@@stephthestar90 I was a security officer/store detective, I forgot to say, when I was at Steiner school, it took me five years to knit a recorder case, because I was too busy having a laugh with the boy I sat next to, and in the afternoons I used to make bread, I play the saxophone now. Technology wasn’t difficult for me at all, I just picked it up as I went along
@@gilllarr9285 How did you find your work? You had to knit your own recorder case?!?! I never heard of that before 😅 I played the recorder in mainstream school. Glad you found tech easy to learn. I would have struggled at Steiner as I learned how to work a computer at quite an early age and I was reading complex computer manuals at 7. I loved video games and still do
Lol in my School teachers were still Mr and Mrs but usually they were mum or dad to one of your friends in school too! My class were so miss behaved In Eurythmy that the teacher refused to teach us! Except the well behaved kids. Misbehaving got you art class and well behaviour got you eurythmy. How was that fair! I was amazing on the recorder by the time I was in middle school I was playing classical scores on it 😝
@@veggyking3024 when we were in the upper school, we had a gertrude system where; when we received 3 Gertrude's, we would have detention. I once got 3 Gertrude's, but was let off my detention because I had an after school music lesson 🙂
You truly have no idea that you're in an alternative school until your not. I switched to a public school in year 8 and I knew Waldorf was a bit different than other schools but I was in shook when I realised just how different it truly is. Also Eurytmi is impossible to explain to someone who hasn't done it themselves
Here's a fun fact! At the waldorf school I go to, each grade has a certain color associated with it. Many grades are rainbow though because there's not a certain color attached to it.
Oh yes the pizza slice! but it had a pointy part and wasn’t round. So it was a bit nah. We didn’t have a real pizza just a crayon picture of one. Because most of the parents protested so much against bringing such food to the school. Many kids in my class hadn’t seen a traditional pizza before. Yes it was intense to start that school as an outsider. I’m still a bit traumatised now 20 years later. On those 3 years I went I think I actually went backwards and unlearned normal school education instead of progressing.
eurythmy....lol....i remember it cos i didn't like doing it....however i have dyspraxia, and no one knew that, and they thought that doing extra eurythmy would do me a favour....so i had extra eurythmy lessons one to one with a teacher at a camphill community as they had a barn there that could be used for such activities, camphill and steiner have close connections as the children of the co-workers at camphill in the 80s usually went to a steiner school, it was more or less the same philosphy, but camphill is a community for adults with learning difficulties.
I’m a Waldorf teacher. It’s a really great and well thought through education if the school is well run. Go and suss it out. And yes Montessori is good too. Anything that springs out of Froebel is an asset
