Joan - Remember your bilingual school idea?...

[Nan in Mass]

Well, I keep thinking of you. My son is doing math and science at the cc this fall (in English) and I still think there isn't enough conversational French or teaching in French happening at home to call us a bilingual school, but it just so happens that all his reading and writing for his at-home classes is in French LOL.

Nan

[Joan in GE]

it just so happens that all his reading and writing for his at-home classes is in French LOL. Nan

 

That's great that you are managing that, Nan!

 

I ended up giving up on the idea for ds3 because of all the work involved and not having a state that would be more amenable where I know a reliable contact who would do paperwork. But I still toy with the idea for my dd in case the conditions would work out and she doesn't do the Swiss matu...

 

It has a lot of potential though....

 

Here in Europe, if you don't count all the French who do CNED, it seems like it is unschoolers who are doing the most...so maybe not so many people who would be interested here either. (This is a perception that I do not have any hard data for and may be related more to the groups I've seen than reality. It's hard to 'find' people.)

 

Joan

[Nan in Mass]

I just thought of something - does it have to be a state? Could it be a province? What about trying to become a private school registered in Nova Scotia, for example? They would be more understanding of bilingualism and they seem to be fairly friendly. I have an exextended family member who chose to have her child educated in Nova Scotia in French so that she would become bilingual and would have a small class. It was an option offered at her public school. I have absolutely no idea how homeschooling works in Canada, but I have neice who is homeschooling there and it appears to be very easy to do. That doesn't mean being a private cover school would be easy, but it might be worth investigating.

 

Nan

[Joan in GE]

I just thought of something - does it have to be a state? Could it be a province? What about trying to become a private school registered in Nova Scotia, for example?

Nan

 

Cleo proposed something like that and at the time I didn't have any more energy to learn another high school system. I've just thought of looking at a site to try to compare the two diplomas.

 

Requirements for Canadian applicants;

http://www.crus.ch/information-programmes/reconnaissance-swiss-enic/admission/admission-en-suisse/pays/canada.html?L=1

 

Requirements for US applicants:

http://www.crus.ch/information-programmes/reconnaissance-swiss-enic/admission/admission-en-suisse/pays/etats-unis.html?L=1

 

So it seems a bit easier to understand how to get there with the US route, since you use AP's...I don't know how to provide the equivalent of a Canadian high school diploma...

 

We do have a small yahoo group in Dutch for those who try to follow WTM in Dutch or make a combination in Dutch and English. We have members from Belgium and the Netherlands. Most of them have younger children.

 

But I just wanted to know that I learned a lot from you both, and Joan you inspired me to create a GBP in French. I hope we will come to that level we can work in French like we do in English now.

Next year I plan to use a Belgian-French History and Geography course, it will be our first subjects in French. I hope it will work!

 

It's great that you can work together with others and get support!

 

But what is a GBP?

 

Joan

[Joan in GE]

Great Books Program

 

I started to and never got finished!

 

Can you share?

 

Hopefully,

Joan