I've just learnt that a parent-run group is proposing a new free school in Crouch End, to be called The Oak School:
http://www.theoakschool.org.uk/
They are calling for people to register their interest via a Demand Survey.
Anyone have any views/inside knowledge/outraged political opinions on this? Or any experience of Steiner-Waldorf schools? The only thing I know about them - and it is based on a Steiner school in another hemisphere several decades ago - is that they don't let children start to read before their baby teeth have fallen out. (Now I type that, it sounds like an urban myth, but I swear it happened to a family I knew.)
Tags for Forum Posts: free school, schools, steiner-waldorf
As free schools continue to hit the headlines, the consultation on the N8 site is online until 28 October to collect resident/ parent views. There's no shortage of places in Crouch End. Resources for this enterprise will come from the finite pot of resources for our children's schools.
http://www.whitehallparkschool.co.uk/consultation/
Opponents of the free school have organised a public meeting - chaired by Islington MP Jeremy Corbyn - 7.00pm Thursday 24 October at Christ Church Hall, Crouch End Hill, N8 8AX. All welcome.
Totally unimportant, but true..
Rudolf Steiner lived across the road from me. There's a plaque on the house now.
The only thing I know about them - is that they don't let children start to read before their baby teeth have fallen out. (Now I type that, it sounds like an urban myth, but I swear it happened to a family I knew.)
Yes, that sounds just as perverse as testing kids for their lives at 6-7-8 or whatever it is you do nowadays.
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