Gideon, few links on Waldorf school and Sudbury
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 6:00 PM
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Didn't want to clutter up your anniversary thread so I'll state this here.
Just to give a brief note of info on Waldorf (sorry folks, not the synth company) as alternative learning, this is the Waldorf definition of themselves:

http://www.whywaldorfworks.org/02_W_Education/index.asp

Another model our group is looking at is Sudbury Valley school, which has a looser structure than some of our parents are comfortable with. http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/3d.htm
Here is John Taylor Gatto with a good look at how it went askew : http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/3b.htm
and covers the issues and motivation for schooling alternatives in a new book:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.htm

We home schooled our two children and networked with other home-schoolers through "Growing Without Schooling" propelled by the publications of John Holt and also informed by alternative schools we attended ourselves ("Other Ways" instigated by Herb Kohl) in Berkeley.
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