I think I'd go with my gut feeling - we have Waldorf schools in our area, and my feeling when I was thinking about preschool for my kids was that the preschools would be a wonderful nurturing place... I wouldn't have been comfortable sending my kids through elementary school there, but think they would have been fine for preschool. I also never heard a philosophy that a child who reads early *on their own motivation* is unbalanced, just thought that the philosophy was not to push reading until children were older - but that might vary from school to school.

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