The Waldorf Olympics 2013!

DSC_1289In Waldorf Schools across the country, the 5th grade Pentathlon is a popular rite of passage. Alabama Waldorf School’s 5th grade classes have participated in a regional pentathlon the past 8 years. So, what is this so-called Olympics all about?

AWS parent and Agoge Fitness instructor, Dave Hall, participated in this year’s Southeastern Waldorf Olympics in Atlanta as a chaperone. In this excerpt from his blog post (published in the May 2013 edition of the AWS Awareness) he writes with both humor and reverence about how the experience went beyond his expectations:

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“…What I didn’t know was how drawn in I would become, how in two short days I would come to care for and take a special interest in kids I’ll probably never see again, or how vital I would come to see this experience and how awesome it is I have a wife who’d be so insistent that this is the way our children would be educated.”

For the link to the full article, click here.

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