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Waldorf day-care center throws child out for “disobedience” – parents “totally surprised”

2022-12-15T04:01:26.318Z


Waldorf day-care center throws child out for "disobedience". Created: 2022-12-15 04:52 The Bad Nauheimer Waldorf-Kita im Taubenbaum is also home to two nature groups that play in a beautiful garden behind the house. A six-year-old was banished from this little paradise. © Nicole Merz Quit: Susan Cardona and her husband Gregor Nebhuth-Cardona were taken aback when they heard that their son Carlo


Waldorf day-care center throws child out for "disobedience".

Created: 2022-12-15 04:52

The Bad Nauheimer Waldorf-Kita im Taubenbaum is also home to two nature groups that play in a beautiful garden behind the house.

A six-year-old was banished from this little paradise.

© Nicole Merz

Quit: Susan Cardona and her husband Gregor Nebhuth-Cardona were taken aback when they heard that their son Carlo was no longer allowed to attend the Waldorf daycare center.

Apparently he's annoying.

Bad Nauheim - "In our kindergarten groups, the focus is on the child and his or her play.

The game is the child's work," reads the website of the Waldorf day-care center in Bad Nauheim.

Apparently, the six-year-old Carlo didn't do a good job.

He, or more precisely his parents, was fired.

"It's best to start tomorrow," they said when the parents asked in disbelief.

"It was a sack," says Susan Cardona.

Her husband Gregor Nebhuth-Cardona criticizes the "elitist attitude" of those responsible for daycare.

"They advertise their great day care center, but only spread honey over your mouth."

The couple is upset, disappointed and cannot understand what is happening to them.

Yet everything started so well.

The family moved from Bad Nauheim to Ober-Mörlen.

So the youngest of three children, Carlo, had to leave the municipal daycare center in Hochwald, reports fnp.de.

The Waldorf daycare center in Bad Nauheim no longer wants wild six-year-olds with them

The parents found out about the Waldorf day-care center and were happy that their son was getting a place there for the last year before school.

In addition, in one of two nature groups, which means: playing outside, in nature, or, in bad weather, in the trailer.

On get-to-know-you days, Carlo and his parents got a taste of how the day-care center works.

The father helped with other parents to build a wooden tower.

"Our son was there.

He felt good, was probably a little wild, as children are.

There were no problems.” The feedback from the educators was: “We can do that, that’s our daily bread.”

Parents “totally surprised” by the termination of the Waldorf daycare center in Bad Nauheim

What the parents overlooked or simply ignored is the six-week probationary period stipulated in the day-care center contract.

This does not exist in municipal day-care centers, but it does in private facilities such as Waldorf schools and day-care centers.

So when the parents were asked for an interview after five weeks, they thought of everything but resignation.

"It totally surprised us," says the mother.

Especially since there had been several conversations and phone calls in the weeks before (in which a daycare week had been canceled due to a lack of staff).

Waldorf daycare center in Bad Nauheim throws out six-year-olds for "disobedience".

They talked to each other for around 40 minutes without the educational staff being able to explicitly say what exactly the problems were with Carlo.

At some point she asked: "Is this supposed to be the termination?" says Susan Cardona.

Everyone else in the room looked at the floor bashfully at first, then a teacher said yes.

“They let us run.

Knew for 40 minutes that they wanted to fire us.” But wouldn't have dared to say so openly and honestly.

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"It wasn't a solution-oriented conversation," says the mother, who is a teacher herself and teaches at the Singberg School in Wölfersheim.

“We asked for an observation log.

That didn't exist.” Above all, the parents wanted to know why their son was no longer allowed to attend daycare.

"There wasn't much," says the father.

There was talk of "disobedience", that he got up while eating and that he threw a stick through the garden.

Once he is said to have refused to climb down from a wooden tower.

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The conclusion that the decision to give notice to the parents had already been made before the interview was taken from the statement by a childcare worker: If Carlo came back to the day-care center the following day, none of them would show up for work.

Yes, say the parents, their child is "wild, strong, very lively, he's just a child." A child about whom the Waldorf pedagogues said: "He will go his own way, but not here." now the parents are convinced too.

Carlo goes to a municipal day care center in Wölfersheim.

There are no problems there, she has asked several times, says Susan Cardona.

It is puzzling for the parents why the Waldorf day-care center demanded 1:1 care for their son.

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Has the Waldorf daycare center in Bad Nauheim capitulated to the educational task?

No, say Waldorf managing director Annette Kunzfeld and daycare manager Anna Bethmann.

That's not how they would describe it.

It is about balancing the individual and the group.

"The child needs 1:1 care," says Bethmann.

Carlo was not introduced to them by their parents as an integration child.

Integration forces are only on duty for a maximum of three hours a day.

Waldorf pedagogy demands that parents “go along with them”.

Apparently this should not have been the case - although Kunzfeld and Bethmann confirm that the parents were "very committed" and the father helped to build a wooden tower.

However, the desired “educational partnership” did not come about.

Kunzfeld and Bethmann report that Carlo was accepted into one of the two nature groups.

Up to 40 children play on a large outdoor area behind the Waldorf school.

There are construction trailers, a yurt, a garden, climbing and play facilities.

A small paradise from which a child was expelled.

Before the last conversation with the parents, they were still hoping for a joint solution, says Kunzfeld.

A group change was also considered.

The idea of ​​termination was in the room, but you wanted to give the parents and child another chance.

Waldorf education in the region made the headlines last year when reports about lateral thinker ideology and the refusal to wear masks became known at the Waldorf school in Bad Nauheim.

(Juergen Wagner)

Source: merkur

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