Tag Archives: Waldorf

Four Steiner Schools close in a month, more closures anticipated

September 2009 saw the demise of four Steiner school ‘initiatives’ and schools. The now defunct organisations are the Durham Steiner Initiative, Aldringham Green School Association, Raphael Steiner School (Suffolk) and Welsh based Steiner school Dan Yr Afallen. Basic information about …

Raphael Steiner School closes

Raphael Steiner School, an Early years/kindergarten in Thornham Magna, Suffolk, has closed. Announcing the news in its Summer 2009 newsletter, the Steiner Schools Fellowship (SWSF) noted “the remote position of the school…along with costs involved in buying land and providing …

Michael House School – dangerous in 2007 and financially failing for years

Michael House School, a Steiner education school and Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship (SWSF) member, was in the very recent past heading for financial ruin and is still in bad financial shape. The school raised funds back in 2003/2004 by …

Prominent SWSF school ripped-off by its own bursar

Here’s a tragic tale of a Steiner school bursar, one David Drage, getting into debt, ripping off the school  to the tune of some 150,000 quid and committing suicide rather than face up to the consequences.

First reports of …