Schools
Claim Lucifer As Model And Guardian
While a California school district is seeing a
boom in interest in a controversial
educational philosophy that goes back more
than 100 years, at the same time it's fighting
a lawsuit over whether the system is legal in
public schools. California's capital city
offers two Waldorf-inspired public schools --
John Morse Waldorf Methods School (K-8), and
the high school George Washington Carver
School of Arts and Sciences. The Sacramento
City Unified School District now is facing a
trial in federal court on allegations that
those schools are religious, making them
ineligible to receive taxpayer dollars. The
lawsuit, filed in 1998 by the group People for
Legal and Nonsectarian Schools, is just now
making it to trial after several appeals. In an
interview with The Sacramento Bee,
the president of PLANS uses phrases like
"cult-like religious sect" and
"new-age religion" to describe the
activities at the schools.