Homeschooling is illegal in Germany. What do you advise for your Germany readers? Do you have any quantified data comparing homeschooling to state schooling (and religious schooling)?
For Germans, I personally would advise homeschooling anyway as a supplement to the formal schooling. There are vast educational resources available online for both parents and students, and the fact that formal schooling is going on is no barrier to making use of those resources. Don’t let your schooling interfere with your education.
There are vast educational resources available online for both parents and students, and the fact that formal schooling is going on is no barrier to making use of those resources.
Actually, it is, because your children spend a lot of time at school and you’d have to teach them in their “free time”.
You can probably achieve a lot even if you select just one afternoon in a week. And you should try to optimize also for fun… maybe it will be the kids’ favorite afternoon in the week. For example, you could offer your neighbors who have children in the same age, to include them in your “afternoon school”; then the children will get each others’ company as a bonus: it’s more fun doing things together with friends.
Also, you can start before the school begins.
Yeah, it’s not the same as being allowed to optimize freely, but you can still try to optimize within given limits.
Homeschooling is illegal in Germany. What do you advise for your Germany readers? Do you have any quantified data comparing homeschooling to state schooling (and religious schooling)?
For Germans, I personally would advise homeschooling anyway as a supplement to the formal schooling. There are vast educational resources available online for both parents and students, and the fact that formal schooling is going on is no barrier to making use of those resources. Don’t let your schooling interfere with your education.
Actually, it is, because your children spend a lot of time at school and you’d have to teach them in their “free time”.
You can probably achieve a lot even if you select just one afternoon in a week. And you should try to optimize also for fun… maybe it will be the kids’ favorite afternoon in the week. For example, you could offer your neighbors who have children in the same age, to include them in your “afternoon school”; then the children will get each others’ company as a bonus: it’s more fun doing things together with friends.
Also, you can start before the school begins.
Yeah, it’s not the same as being allowed to optimize freely, but you can still try to optimize within given limits.
We still need to do research on the situation in European countries.