High Price of School Immunization

[NoZed Avenger]

The Atlantic gives some statistics on the Waldoirf School in Pennsylvania:

Its tuition for the lower school is $17,000 a year. The school provides the following quote on the "Spirit of Waldorf Eduction":


"The Free Waldorf School was founded upon the impulse for social change, upon the need to reform society into a community that takes into account the true Being of Humanity. Into the desire for reform were sown the life-giving forces of the teacher's inner work and Rudolf Steiner's spiritual insight. The goal of this education was that, through living inner work guided by the insights of Rudolf Steiner, the teachers would develop in the children such power of thought, such depth of feeling, such strength of will that they would emerge from their school years as full members of the Human Community, able to meet and transform the world."

The immunization rate for the kindergarden students? 23% (vs. just under 90% for the general population in the area). Apparently because of "personal beliefs."

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/10/a-shocking-chart-on-vaccination/247651/


WTH?

 

[Estellea]

Wow, 17K to teach your child to be a racist and a disease vector; sounds like a bargain to me. [/sarcasm] A Woodorf school in that general region had to close down earlier this year due to a pertussis outbreak amongst most of the student body and some teachers.

Este