Children of the Pandemic
Fall 2021, Issue #105
A CALL FOR THE YEAR OF THE CHILD: ATTENDING TO CHILDHOOD HUMAN RIGHTS
by Melissa Greer, DO
Since the spring of 2020, we have all been stretched in different ways, yet a cautiously hopeful feeling is in the air. Particularly vulnerable among us have been the youngest children, and new initiatives are springing up worldwide to help them. In the UK, one such initiative, sponsored by the Children’s Parliament in Scotland, has dedicated 2021 as “The Year of Childhood,” focusing on children’s human rights. They are working to “create opportunities to share rights-based practice in an atmosphere of optimism and confidence.”[i]
It is interesting to study the development of human rights through time. Continue reading...
WALDORF PRINCIPLES AT WORK IN THE COMMUNITY: THE STORY OF THE BRIGHTMOOR MAKER SPACE
By Bart Eddy
Detroit Community: Preparing the Soil
Detroit Community Schools, a K-12 public charter school, is now in its twenty-fifth year of operation and firmly established in the Brightmoor/Cody-Rouge neighborhoods on the northwest side of Detroit. Candyce Sweda and I became the co-founders of Detroit Community High School and Kindergarten, as we were called back then, in 1997. We made it very clear that we were not starting a public Waldorf School but that we would attempt to bring the educational archetypes of Rudolf Steiner into the public educational domain. This meant that we would do everything possible to create a holistic curriculum and find a balance between the academic, artistic-social, and practical. For eight solid years, this seemed achievable. Continue reading...
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