To be fair, I don't think James was saying that at all. He seemed to be saying that the current situation is far from ideal, but it is what it is, and we need to live with it. So, rather than just moaning about the proposed opening of a Steiner school on an internet forum, perhaps we as a community should be exploring other options. It shouldn't be that way, the local authority should be in a position to make sure there are enough schools / school places to meet need, but quite simply, they are not. Personally, having read up on Steiner education, I started off thinking "that all sounds quite reasonable", then I got to the whole Anthroposophy bit, at which point I decided that El Pibe had basically summed it up pretty well. "Woo" indeed.