How to handle homeschooling in another language?
I want to home-school my child (He is now 2 years old).
However I live in a country where homeschooling is not allowed (at least not in the country's school system). Also, educational materials for homeschooling are quite limited in my language.
There are some people who do it, but most of those I know are either foreign nationals or ethnic minorities who registered their children in their home country and use the mother tongue as a school language.
The option for me would be to use an English/US umbrella school, but that would mean to teach in English. And that would require my son to speak a reasonable English by the age of 6/7 and me/my wife having an excellent command of the language as well. (We can speak fluently, but we definitely cannot match a native speaker).
(We did not try to teach our son English yet)
I am looking for a similar experience, or, much better, some studies on how well this is/can be accomplished.
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A search of several educational databases is not turning up any articles to directly address your question. As you note, most people using home-schooling internationally are expatriates, so searching sites focusing on expatriate home-schooling may yield some helpful testimonials.
Your best bet might be to initiate conversations with a few schools to find out how well they serve people in your situation. In particular, you might contact the K12 International Academy which has global affiliations in Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America. You might also look at the Calvert School, which has been around since 1906, is internationally accredited, and claims students in 60 countries. Either of these schools could probably connect you with parents in a situation similar to yours.
Other homeschool options are discussed on this expat website.
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