Dear Alumni, Parents, and Community Members: Last night (Wednesday, November 30th) on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, education correspondent Rehema Ellis reported on the Waldorf School of the Peninsula - located in the Silicon Valley of California. The story, "The Waldorf Way: Silicon Valley school eschews technology", reports that despite being in the heart of thousands of high tech companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google - to name a few, Waldorf students are not caught up in the gadget frenzy that has consumed so many other school children nationwide. Click this link (or the following image) to watch the story.
The story continues the ongoing conversation that began with this front-page story in The New York Times. The piece goes on to report how computers are not used in Waldorf's early grades and only used appropriately in the upper grades. As our Faculty Chair Sabine Kully and our High School Chair Roland Rothenbucher previously discussed in this response to the New York Times article, integral to Waldorf education is a developmentally appropriate approach to students' engagement with technology and electronic media. We at the Waldorf School of Garden City are thrilled that Waldorf education is receiving this kind of national media attention, and we are proud to be at the forefront of this increasingly prominent educational movement, with all of you - our parents, alumni, supporters, and friends!We encourage you to share this story with your friends and family through email, Facebook, Twitter and other social media. Thank you.
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