Now they can’t count sheep
The continuing experiment in Australia of having Steiner streams within a mainstream primary school setting is again surrounded by controversy.
Last time around it concerned a teacher interpreting a child’s artwork to indicate that the child’s soul wasn’t ready to progress to another class. This time around it’s an abysmal level of literacy and numeracy attainment by pupils at a school running the same experiment of having a Steiner stream within the school.
The report can be found at
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22516518-13881,00.html
or at this tinyurl of the same link
http://tinyurl.com/2whcnb
OK, we’re offering odds as to what the next bit of Rumpus Down Under regarding the Steiner experiment might be.
Hot favourite as we go to press is a bad science story but there’s a lot of punts for the next controversy to be an ‘inadequate handling of bullying’ scenario. Strangely, nobody within CHASE fancies a flutter on it being a quack medicine fiasco next time around.
So it’s even money for ‘bad science’, 2:1 bullying and a super dooper generous offer of 6:1 odds for quack (complementary or alternative medical treatment or diagnosis of kids) being the next controversy to cloud the Steiner experiment in sunny Australia. Six to one!
