I just introduces myself in the unschooling section as that section is the reason i subscribed. Reading the stories there i thought it would be polite to introduce myself, let me do the same right here. If you don't mind, i just copied what i posted there tough ;-)
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I am a proud mom of young girls, we are a dutch family. Overhere homeschooling isn't a legal option. When your child is 4 you take them to kindergarten, when the child is 5 the law says school it's an obligation and 2nd and last year of kindergarten starts. After that school réally begins and is mandatory to the age of 18.
Homeschooling just isn't a choice, really. The only way to homeschool is to don't let your kid go to school for religious reasons or your life philosophy (like attachment parenting, or humanism for example). But there's a catch; you only can do so if there's no school within reasonable distance who provides education for your religion or outlook on life. And, an even bigger catch, if your child DOES go to school it's a hell of a job to rethink your options, you didn't had a problem with religion/life philosphy and that school when you send them there in the first place so why would you now (yes, like it's impossible to change your beliefs..)
So, you can't legally choose to homeschool just because, well you just want to choose homeschool.
Nearly 0,02% of the dutch kids are getting homeschooled right now. So homeschool, let alone unschooling, is really a unknown thing overhere. It's there but it isn't, in a way (make me think, it's kind of like our drugs policy, so its a dutch thing i guess
When i say we choose to homeschool we often hear; 'Can you do that? Is that even legal?', people are really astonished, even teachers ask that question.
Unschooling is a thing i don't even dare to bring up sometimes for obvious reasons.
The people who áre homeschooling (also because they want to and because they believe it's a great way to grow and learn) are sort of connecting online but here are just so few om them.
So. That's why i subscribed here. To read and learn about homeschooling but unschooling in particular.
See you around!
PS. I'm fullblooded dutch so the grammar and spelling in english isn't perfect, i know..
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I am a proud mom of young girls, we are a dutch family. Overhere homeschooling isn't a legal option. When your child is 4 you take them to kindergarten, when the child is 5 the law says school it's an obligation and 2nd and last year of kindergarten starts. After that school réally begins and is mandatory to the age of 18.
Homeschooling just isn't a choice, really. The only way to homeschool is to don't let your kid go to school for religious reasons or your life philosophy (like attachment parenting, or humanism for example). But there's a catch; you only can do so if there's no school within reasonable distance who provides education for your religion or outlook on life. And, an even bigger catch, if your child DOES go to school it's a hell of a job to rethink your options, you didn't had a problem with religion/life philosphy and that school when you send them there in the first place so why would you now (yes, like it's impossible to change your beliefs..)
So, you can't legally choose to homeschool just because, well you just want to choose homeschool.
Nearly 0,02% of the dutch kids are getting homeschooled right now. So homeschool, let alone unschooling, is really a unknown thing overhere. It's there but it isn't, in a way (make me think, it's kind of like our drugs policy, so its a dutch thing i guess
When i say we choose to homeschool we often hear; 'Can you do that? Is that even legal?', people are really astonished, even teachers ask that question.
Unschooling is a thing i don't even dare to bring up sometimes for obvious reasons.
The people who áre homeschooling (also because they want to and because they believe it's a great way to grow and learn) are sort of connecting online but here are just so few om them.
So. That's why i subscribed here. To read and learn about homeschooling but unschooling in particular.
See you around!
PS. I'm fullblooded dutch so the grammar and spelling in english isn't perfect, i know..
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