A friend's daughter lives in Sweden and she applied to home-school her children a few months ago but was turned down on the grounds that their social education would suffer, which is ridiculous as they have plenty of friends and play tennis and all sorts of other activities involving other children. Apparently it is very difficult to get permission.
She got a write-up in the local newspaper about it. translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmalmolund.city.se%2Fnyheter%2F2008%2F08%2F12%2FDe_far_ inteundervisasinabarnhemma%2F&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=sv&tl=en The boys aren't very happy at school and she is worried that their English will be behind if they come back to the UK.
'They are planning to have a peaceful demonstration in Stockholm to keep home education as an option in Sweden. Here is the online petition for those who cant go.
Please forward to anyone who you think would want to sign.
(Förnamn = first name. efternamn =surname)
hemundervisning.nu/?Namninsamling
And this is the link to the English translation about the issue:
hemundervisning.nu/?English_information
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Petition to keep HE as an option in Sweden
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maverick · 17/09/2008 14:38
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