My husband ans I were planning on Waldorf, because music (or any kind of art) is so important to us. That was until I spoke to a friend of mine who attended a Waldorf school. He said some people like it and get something back from it, but the fact that you spend so much time with the same teacher and friends is not as good as it may sound to parents. We talked for some time and he told me some stories; the bottom line was: you get typecasted. If you were the [insert bad adjective of choice: poor, bad mannered, smelly, ...] child, it was very difficult to grow out of it.
He also wished he had been exposed to more different (to him) but commom subjects - he told me: "I can knit. I'm a guy and not afraid to knit. But so what? What actual benefit does that translate into?" It was not easy for him to get to his University of choice.
(By the way, my frined is also a musician, so this was no lawyer talking).
For us, it was a dream shattered, but better to know now than later. |