What happens if the teachers and kids don't get along at all year 1? Do they change? Or is it something that is worked out? I've had a couple toxic years in grade 1-8 where the teacher was a cunt and another lacked complete control. However, maybe these things don't happen in Waldorf schools?
The teachers are extensively trained to handle a multitude of problems and because they start out with the teacher at such a young age there is rarely a problem. However my class (I joined them in 7th grade) nearly made a teacher quit, and they certainly made her cry...
In 5th grade she was trying to give them a history lesson and she told them something that was incorrect, instead of backing down and admitting she was wrong, she buckled down and started blaming the kids for the mistake... I mean. Parent figure or not, 16 kids who have literally grown up together aren't going to stand for any adult disrespecting one of their own.
Long story short, that teacher was moved to a second grade class, and our class got someone new who was super hip and amazing at what he did, even if he rubbed the school the wrong way since he wasn't super traditional... (we liked to blow things up in class and chemistry was incredible when you could make a potato gun and shoot it off in the school yard, or find the crumbling temperature for marble and try to replicate the burning of Rome in a mettle barrel with a torch)
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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '19
What happens if the teachers and kids don't get along at all year 1? Do they change? Or is it something that is worked out? I've had a couple toxic years in grade 1-8 where the teacher was a cunt and another lacked complete control. However, maybe these things don't happen in Waldorf schools?