Letters

To the Editor:

Regarding "A School With Balance" (On Assignment, Oct. 18, 1995): My child went to the San Francisco Waldorf school for a year and a half, and my wife and I participated fully in school activities. I was charmed, as your reporter was, by the dedication of the staff and the beauty of the school. I was dismayed when I discovered pseudoscience in my son's lesson books, and investigated to discover whether it was a problem of poorly trained teachers or part of the system.

Unfortunately, it was the latter. My efforts to reform the science program, along with my objections to pre-Nazi racial theories in books sold at the school, resulted in my family's being expelled. Over the last five years I have studied and accumulated an 8-foot shelf of Waldorf publications. I recommend that you look into...