Hello bonjour, this question is for the WHOLE world: info about homescholing:?

Question

Are homeschooled children obliged by the law of the country to follow the national curriculum in: UK?
France?
Belgium?
Canada?
Japan?
French Polynesia?
Spain?
United states?
and Africa?
PLEASE provide me the sources, the law statements etc.. as precise as possible. Thank you

Answer 1

Bonjour! Ça va?

Not in the UK, Australia or New Zealand.

I did quote the relevant bits from the english government websites in another thread recently if you want to take a look at them. Similarly the relevant national homeschooling organisations' websites provide details in NZ and Australia.

Here in Australia, we don't have to study any of the regular school subjects if we don't want to: our laws say homeschoolers have to have "educational objectives" and sufficient resources to carry them through. The government doesn't try to tell us what our educational objectives should be though...

...I'm thinking of spending the next six months determining the exact amounts of various flavoured ice creams needed to make oneself as sick as a pig. I also plan to investigate if wearing my pyjamas whilst eating the ice cream or eating the ice cream whilst languishing under the doona has any measurable effects on my data or research. Well, it's an educational objective!

Now if you'll excuse me I need to go and convince Mum that she has to order at least 20 different flavours of ice cream so I can satisfy the government's insistence on 'sufficient resources'.

Answer 2

I'm in Canada. We do not have a national curriculum. Education is governed by each province and territory, with each one determining their own curriculum.

http://www.hslda.ca/provlaws.asp has them listed, but they are not necessarily updated; my provincial laws (Alberta) changed 2 years ago, I think, and they still have not updated the page. You may also be able to find information here http://www.flora.org/homeschool-ca/


Here in Alberta, we do not need to follow the provincial curriculum unless we sign up in a specific way saying we will (some families do that as it provides them with more funding and/or support/structure).

ADDED: It is not true at this time that Ontario requires homeschooling students to follow the provincial curriculum and it hasn't been that way for at least a few years.

Answer 3

Home school laws in the US are different from state to state. The 10th amendment in our constitution keeps education out of Federal hands and leaves it to each state. That being said the best place for info on US home schooling is www.hslda.org They are a legal service for home schoolers here.

Answer 4

In the united states it varies state by state....for example,in GA you can do what you like, whereas in NY you have to provide a syllabus to prove you are following state curriculum

Answer 5

In Texas we can school using any bonafide manner. Which means we must teach Reading, writing, math, spelling and citizenship in any manner that our children wish to learn those subjects. We do not report to anyone and are considered private schools. It's one of only 2 states in the US that allow parents full control over what we're teaching. (I forget the other state)

Answer 6

They do in Canada. I homeschooled my granddaughter one year because she couldn't attend regular school on account of her skating, and we had to follow the Ontario curriculum. By the way, she did exceptionally well, that year.

Answer 7

http://www.hslda.org/Default.asp?bhcp=1

See international section.

Sounds like a school project to me.

Answer 8

In the United States they can pretty much do as they please