Homeschooling in France

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Home-schooling in France on the rise – Yahoo! News

FONTAINEBLEAU, France (AFP) – When twelve million French children return to school in early November after a two-week holiday, several thousand others will stay home because their parents have opted out of a system they claim no longer adequately teaches basic skills.

Home-schooling in France remains marginal compared to other countries.

In the United States five percent of school-age children — more than one million — are educated outside of schools, many on religious grounds, according to the US Census office.
And in Britain about 50,000 kids hits the books at home, almost half of them because of bullying by classmates according to Mike Fortune-Wood, author of “The Face of Home Education in the UK.”

In France, which has always prided itself on the efficacy and quality of its highly centralized school system, home-schooled kids number less than 20,000, not counting another 40,000 children who study outside of school in state-run programs due to illness or careers in sports or music.

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