Waldorf Education in Rio de Janiero, Brazil
We are fortunate at RSCT to be surrounded by a number of anthroposophical initiatives. We share our campus with the Toronto Waldorf School, Arscura School of Living Art, Hesperus Village Retirement Community, Pegasus anthroposophical medical practice, the Anthroposophical Society Library, My Child Myself and a Christian Community Church. There are also a number of anthroposophical initives and Waldorf schools within easy reach of our centre: Waldorf Academy, Halton Waldorf School, Trillium Waldorf School, Mulberry Waldorf School and the London Waldorf School as well as others. This allows for a diverse community life and places us in daily contact with students of all ages in the rhythms of a fully-developed Waldorf school community.
Not all Waldorf schools are so fortunate. I am presently visiting Rio de Janeiro where there is one small and growing Waldorf school, Jardin-Escola Michaelis. It has been a pleasure to work with the faculty, parents and board of this school as they have all grown over the past five years from a small kindergarten to a growing school that encompasses severeal multi-age kindergartens up to grade four. They have outgrown their first school house and are presently nearing capacity in their second. It is not easy to grow a spiritually minded community school in Rio, the capital of CARNIVAL, but these families are doing a remarkable job and with little support or recognition beyond those families who have found their way to this little school. It´s creation and conitnuing existence is a miracle whose value is most clearly visible in the faces of the happy children.
Parabems!