THE
SCHOOL
The
Perito Moreno Waldorf School:
The school is carried by the association "Asociación Civil Educadora
Luz del Sol". It educates nearly 400 children and young people from
kindergarten to high school. The school is based on the principles
of Waldorf education which were developed by Rudolf Steiner in 1919
to meet the educational needs of the children of our age.
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Based on the belief that all teaching has to be seen in a social
context, the school considers that education is at root a social
question. Personal growth goes hand in hand with the appropriate
social development of the community one belongs to.
Rudolf Steiner outlined the concept of the three-fold social order
which posits that a community can grow in a healthy way if it respects
the following:
- In the cultural sphere, respect for the diversity of beliefs
- In the area of law, equal of opportunity for all
- In economic life, fraternity
The way the Perito Moreno Waldorf school works is based on these
concepts.
Because of this, our community consists of families that come from
very different social, economic and religious backgrounds. We work
on integration, and consider diversity essential in order to form
free human beings. From its very beginnings to the present day our
school has grown in response to the real needs of the community.
Sharing material resources in a fraternal way has always been the
basic principle of our growth.
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We constantly receive donations: work, time, professional skills,
ideas and money. The school does not receive any kind of government
subsidy and our socio-educational project is based on self sufficiency.
We choose to be self sufficient as this stimulates social participation
and group initiatives. The creativity which is thus developed enables
our school to continue in spite of the legal and economic instability
of our South American society.
Historical overview
The association "Asociación Civil Educadora Luz del Sol", a non-profit
organization, was set up in 1987 by teachers, parents and members
of the anthroposophical society. In the beginning three teachers,
supported by teachers from the waldorf school San Miguel Arcangel,
opened a kindergarten for 7 children in response to the needs of
a group of parents who wanted a different kind of education for
their children.
The kindergarten was first located in a small house in Villa Adelina
and moved to a bigger house in Martinez when more space was needed.
1994 saw the need to form a first grade and with a great deal of
enthusiasm and hard work a property was bought. Today it houses
the kindergarten and the first nine years of school years. To obtain
the necessary funds for this property and further build the school,
we received donations from various sources, including:
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-Loans from associations related to Waldorf education in Germany,
Switzerland and Argentina.
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Donations as a result of initiatives by parents and teachers.
- Loans from parents.
Thanks to the parents who have continued to look for new fundraising
opportunities year after year, we have been able to build new classrooms,
bathrooms, playgrounds etc. and have now completed the basic premises.
The activities they undertook to generate those funds range from
making and selling dolls, Waldorf toys and organic food in the school
shop, to recycling paper, organizing raffles, concerts, circus performances,
clothes fairs, art exhibitions and even selling insurance.
In November 2002 the school needed to buy a new property to house
the high school. This has made the Perito Moreno School into an
educational establishment which offers the complete range of the
compulsory twelve grades of education. This property too was bought
with loans from parents the school and the school's Parents Association
has promised to pay them off by 2015.
