On taking Second (or more) Chances
He Who Must Not Be Named's children attend the City of Lakes Waldorf school in Minneapolis. Yesterday the school presented its 25th annual Circus, which we attended along with HWMNBN, our grandchildren Millie (age 7, currently learning about vowels and letter blends in 1st grade, 2 loose teeth) and Ethan (age 3.5, in preschool, reporting about what the class had for snack each day) and (sort of) their mother, Kitty, who works at the school and consequently was very busy with front of the house activities. The Waldorf educational philosophy is different from mainstream educational philosophies and is, by its own admission, not for everyone. While working predominantly in early childhood education, I became heavily influenced by the Reggio Emilia philosophy which informed to some extent the International Baccalaureate (IB) philosophy. The school district had been exploring adopting IB for all its schools, which it subsequently did, and on the early end, Reggi...