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This has been the case for a while. Look up Waldorf schools. Screen free.
by adverbly 10mo ago
This has been the case for a while. Look up Waldorf schools. Screen free.
- dmurray 10mo agoI attended a screen free school, but back then we just called it a school.
- hamburglar 10mo agoCareful. Waldorf schools have some great ideas but they’re also rife with crackpottery and are somewhat cult-like in many ways.
- jswelker 10mo agoBut they do have great salads.
- derwiki 10mo agoCurious about the crackpottery and cultiness? I’m on board with some of their rules, but no listening to prerecorded music is where they lose me.
- olelele 10mo agoThe problem with spaces like this is that manipulative people easily take over the rudder for the whole school combined with that it attracts a certain kind of free-thinking and liberal people who get wooed in and enable it all. Edit: there is a Swedish documentary about one of the schools my brother went to. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14688132 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14688132
- hamburglar 10mo agoAll Waldorf schools aren’t created equal, but things I’ve seen are anti-vax beliefs, hard belief in mystical karmic stuff, a sort of groupthink that encourages conformity and obedience and shunning of people who question authority, and (and this one is really strange IMO) a prohibition on fantasy play among the children (eg you aren’t allowed to pretend you’re running a restaurant and your friends are guests —- for reasons of crackpottery).
- olelele 10mo agoCan confirm. My brothers went to different ones and some were legit over the line.