My Nonprofit Reviews

This organization, as well as Prairie Moon Waldorf School specifically, promotes the bizarre, racist, and cultish philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, a self-proclaimed occultist who called his beliefs "Anthroposophy". I would encourage anyone interested in Prairie Moon or Waldorf in general to research Anthroposophy and Waldorf critics and personal stories. Anthroposophy isn't specifically mentioned to parents when they inquire about the school; instead Prairie Moon is sold as a nature based, "whole child" school where students learn charming skills like gardening and bread-making. In actuality children below the age of around 7 years are denied books (older children make their own), writing instruments, black or dark brown crayons, paper with square corners, dolls with faces, or modern technology. All of the walls are lazured to allow "spirits to pass through". Children aren't taught to read before they lose their baby teeth so that the connection to the child's past incarnation is kept intact. They're denied black crayons or anything pencil-shaped or with sharp corners for the same reason. The children are surreptitiously assigned a "temperament" by the teacher on the first day and taught to that temperament. Bullying is not addressed or intervened with because Waldorf dictates that children must work out their "karma". The school is rife with superstition, rituals, incantations, and magical teachings that defy logic or scientific fact. For instance, when my son asked where the flame in a match came from when the teacher lit a candle prior to lunch, the teacher told him that the flame came from a "fire sprite" who lived in the match. When the match was blown out, the "fire sprite went to sleep". It is frustrating and infuriating to know that children (and more subtly, the parents) are indoctrinated into this bizarre cult without any amount of transparency and that it is the children who ultimately suffer with the bullying and academic delays that this type of school imposes.