Our kids went to a Waldorf-inspired school for part of a year (at 4 and 6), and I definitely wish I'd done my homework. I thought it was "we had pretty wooden toys" as stated by MayDay up-thread, but it was actually nuts. The millet-based snacks, cutting the corners off all paper, chair-free except for tree stumps was quirky, but not letting the kids use black or brown crayons because black is the color of spiritual death was messed up (and no pointy crayons either...$60 beeswax crayon bricks for shading because lines aren't allowed for reasons that I don't recall). In our school there was no actual learning, but lots of made of things related to fairies, gnomes, Mama Earth, etc. As a scientist, explanations about nature that were attributed to the actions of Sprites or fairies grated on me; especially when the kids asked specific questions (why do leaves change color in the fall? Mama Earth tells the fairies...). Our children were early readers and loved math, but they weren't allowed to do or even talk about any of that (e.g. while being told they had to wait 5 minutes to eat lunch, a girl said that was about a million seconds, and my 4 year old was berated for saying that it was only 300 seconds because there's 60 seconds in a minute and 5 x 60 is 300). Your school may be different, but the basis of Waldorf is cult-ish, racist, and not based on any child development research. We refer to this as "the lost year".
