New Zealand
An Unreserved Apology - With Reservations - Michael Park Steiner School
[8-Aug-14]
New Zealand has always been a useful country to examine how Steiner schools might behave when they've been state-funded for some time. They've been gradually integrating into the state system since the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act of 1975, to the point where there are now very few private Steiner Schools left.[more]
Vilifying Parents - Te Ra Waldorf School
[26-Jul-14]
Events at the Te Ra Waldorf School in New Zealand have made headlines recently, and centre around the revelations of racist underpinnings within the Waldorf/Steiner pedagogy. [more]
Human Rights Mediation with the Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School
[13-Jan-13]
We have now completed our Human Rights initiative regarding unchecked bullying in the Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School. The result shows that not only did the school fail to follow its own behaviour policy and expelled bullied children, but that they’ve spent the last three and a half years trying to cover that up.
Getting this result wasn’t easy and resulted in a lot of backlash, smearing, and hatred. Here are some of the sneering angry attacks that we’ve sustained during this process. [more]
New Zealand satirical political show, Beehave, talks about Steiner Schools
[16-Oct-11]
Beehave’s focus is often on Education, but never until now on Steiner schools. However, recent rumblings about New Zealand’s ill-received “National Standards” have brought up an interesting development, spearheaded by the Federation of Rudolf Steiner Waldorf Schools in New Zealand, and represented with humour by the NZ Education Minister “Anne Tolley”. [more]
David Mollet talks about his experiences at the Christchurch Rudolf Steiner School
[28-Aug-11]
This person has had a volatile experience with Steiner Education to the point that neither those in favour of this system or those against it have much good to say about him, yet he suffered greatly at the hands of the Christchurch Steiner School, something which has taken him over twenty-five years to gather the strength to talk about. [more]
“Out of the indications of Rudolf Steiner”
[12-Mar-11]
Speaking out in a very public and visible way about Steiner education had an unexpected outcome... [more]
[27-Feb-11]
The poster we had produced and placed around various cities across New Zealand to open the debate about this alternative education system: “Is Steiner Education Putting Children At Risk ?” [more]
Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School
[25-Feb-11]
The first video shows a family being evicted and trespassed from the Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School for asking the school to provide the "safe, peaceful, and natural learning haven" that it advertises. [more]