Home schooling post-COVID

Drjmagic Contributor

Member since 10 April 2020

DrjmagicContributor12 May 2023 00:05:33

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Hi,5

Has there been any change to the acceptance and/or legality of home schooling? I would like my girlfriend and her teenaged daughter to live in Canada for 6 months, but we don't want the daughter to be held back when she returns to Brazil

I'm hoping that we could get the Brazilian curriculum (grade 11) and make sure she covers everything while away. As she would be in Canada on a visitors visa, she couldn't enroll in a Canadian school without paying a huge foreign student fee. The idea is that she would complete the Brazilian curriculum during the day while in Canada.

She is a dedicated and motivated student; I am a teacher. Completing the work would not be an issue.

Any suggestions ?

Pete

abthree Brazil Expert

Member since 28 December 2017

abthreeBrazil Expert12 May 2023 02:17:51

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05/11/23 @Drmagic. Hi, Pete, nice to see you around again. Your girlfriend should talk to the Diretora/Diretor of her daughter's school, tell her about the opportunity to spend considerable time abroad and about the resources (i.e., you, a working professional) available to her, and ask about available options for her daughter to keep up with her classmates,

I'm not aware of any formal relaxation of the the barriers to home schooling, but resources for distance learning were developed at many levels and in many places in Brazil during the pandemic and, with a suggestion and a little imagination on the school's part, some of them may still be available to meet her needs.

sprealestatebroker ViP

Member since 01 May 2018

sprealestatebrokerViP12 May 2023 15:44:00

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Abthree suggestion is the best course of action. Talk to the Principal at the school she is enrolled in Brazil, to make sure there is some path she can undertake to comply.

There's no culture of home schooling in Brazil. So she won't earn credits on home schooling.

Your odds might improve if she is enrolled in a Private and Accredited School in Brazil. If she is in Public School here, I| doubt they will accommodate to her needs.

Another way to forgo this is to temporarily go on a furlough ( trancar a matricula ) knowing she will resume once you are back. Good private schools can accommodate to your daughter's schooling progress.

Speaking for myself, as a kid in elementary school, I got bumped a year grade when the sisters ( Catholic School ) realized my aptitudes and intellectual skills would be better suited to upperclassman status ( then 3rd to 4th ).