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RE: Could We be Saying Farewell to Waldorf Education?
It's not free if your neighbour's paying for it; also hard to see it as a gift when it's mandatory.
I looked at Waldorf schools here, as we're starting to think about High school for Henry; but I fear it's likely out of our price range.
Sadly, many Waldorf schools can be pricey as they rarely have government support. The one I went to was run as a not for profit for a deprived area, so families could pay a percentage of their income or full fees, depending on which worked out cheaper. As you can imagine, few families paid the full fees. I know of only one in our class who would have. This is what makes me all the sadder that it has been closed.
Yes, there's a bit of that feel that it's free education, but they'll choose how you're educated. Unless you are wealthy enough to buy your choice of education. In the UK, They don't have government subsidised private schools, so it's either the state schools or full blown private school fees. In some areas you don't even get private schools, because none could afford them. Yet Ofsted has still decided that its going to interfere with private schools. I bet it wouldn't interfere with places like Eton, though.