But come up with a Christian flavor of anthroposophy and the liberals will be screaming to high Valhalla.
Waldorf does have a *Christian flavor*. It includes a Gnostic world view: “The Christ”, who did not die on the cross, the “lost gospels”, et al.
We have one here. It is a drawing card for leftists and cultural elitists to the area. It also practices small-c communism: anyone can attend and the ones who cannot afford the tuition are given scholarships. Those who cannot subsidize others or who are themselves subsidized, do the scut work. Anthroposophy is not taught, per se. It is, however, the underlying guiding principle of the curriculum. Only in the very few, private Waldorf High Schools is Steiner begun to be presented.
Waldorf produces well-spoken children with a great personal presentation who have never had to write a report, finish an assignment or do more than parrot a lesson. In fact, the elementary curriculum is all rote reiteration of what the teacher writes on the board. Despite this, through alumna connections, many of the graduates end up in small private colleges several of which are ostensibly Christian. This is also often on full or partial scholarship.
It is an all-things-to-all-people sort of mish-mash that is difficult to pin down. They emphasize the arts, visual, musical and dramatic. Goethean *science* (please look it up) is taught.
PLANS has been fighting this for well over 15 years. They are a originally a group of parents dismayed over what their kids were being taught. Those who have experienced it negatively allege that there is an undercurrent of bullying in the schools. The underlying belief in karma accepts that some children will dominate others and no one is supposed to counter predestination. While anyone may attend, non-white parents have alleged that there is a covert racism to the fundamental belief system.
Basically, it produces anarchists with a will-to-power.