{"id":66166,"date":"2025-05-29T19:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=66166"},"modified":"2025-05-29T19:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:15:01","slug":"waldorf-schools-in-france-weak-arguments-strong-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/waldorf-schools-in-france-weak-arguments-strong-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Waldorf Schools in France: Weak Arguments, Strong Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"Three decades ago, the French state established an \u201cInterministerial Mission to Monitor and Combat Sectarian Aberrations.\u201d Its latest activity report, for the period from 2022 to 2024, was published in April 2025. Once again, it denounces Waldorf schools and fuels public mistrust. Here is a summary.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn its website, the Mission interminist\u00e9rielle de vigilance et de lutte contre les d\u00e9rives sectaires (MIVILUDES) writes: \u201cOut of respect for all faiths and the principle of secularism, the legislator has always refused to define the terms \u2018sect\u2019 and \u2018religion\u2019 so as not to violate freedom of conscience, opinion and religion.\u201d It explains that \u201cFrench laws do not aim to prevent and combat sects per se, but sectarian aberrations\u201d and gives a definition for \u201csectaria<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three decades ago, the French state established an \u201cInterministerial Mission to Monitor and Combat Sectarian Aberrations.\u201d Its latest activity report, for the period from 2022 to 2024, was published in April 2025. Once again, it denounces Waldorf schools and fuels public mistrust. Here is a summary. On its website, the Mission interminist\u00e9rielle de vigilance et de lutte contre les d\u00e9rives sectaires (MIVILUDES) writes: \u201cOut of respect for all faiths and the principle of secularism, the legislator has always refused to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17570,"featured_media":65787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8811,8812,8823],"tags":[11658,11659,8824],"class_list":["post-66166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","category-pedagogy","category-reflection","tag-ausgabe-20-2025-en","tag-english-issue-22-2025","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}