Due to the pandemic, homeschooling is heating up and getting attention all over the world, and some of the attention is unwelcome. In France, homeschooling is close to being abolished this month, as Germany and Sweden have already done. In the United States, homeschooling has doubled in size this year and all sorts of things are brewing here as a result, too…
Read MoreOn a tactical level, it seems futile to think by signing an online petition about the laws of a country where I am not a citizen that I will somehow help shape that country’s laws. However, on a strategic level, I can see how all these actions are important and linked . . .
Read MoreEight legislators in France have decided homeschooling is dangerous and should be tightly regulated to prevent the mental, ideological, or religious conditioning of children. This is done without much, if any, evidence being produced to support this claim . . .
Read MorePat Farenga speaking with French homeschoolers in Paris, July 3, 2013. The similarities and differences between France and the United States about homeschooling are striking.
