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Many in Rosemont Consider Waldorf-Style School - Rosemont, CA Patch

Many in Rosemont Consider Waldorf-Style School - Rosemont, CA Patch:

Many in Rosemont Consider Waldorf-Style School

Many families from the Rosemont area send their kids to George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science in Rancho Cordova.

Note: This is the second part in a series about enrollment at Rosemont High School and Albert Einstein Middle School. Click here to read part one.

For many parents, one of the main attractions of a small high school just east of Rosemont is what it doesn't have.

"We do not have fights. We do not have theft," said Allegra Alessandri, principal of George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science.

The Rancho Cordova school, the first-ever Waldorf-inspired public high school in the nation, is one of the Sacramento City Unified School District's five small high schools. Alessandri said the school's students get a mix of practical and theoretical education, and its teachers "help