- France, April 2009 : Homeschooler's organizations' lobbying http://www.lesenfantsdabord.org/index.php
http://instructionenfamille.free.fr/

France, March 2009 : Less liberty for homeschooler : the law changes - Décret du 5 mars 2009

Abrogation des articles D 131 6 111 à 131 - 16 du code de l'éducation. Nouveaux articles D 131 6 11 et 131 - 12 : qui imposent la maîtrise du socle commun de connaissance Entrée en vigueur : rentrée 2009 - 2010

" Art. D. 131-11. - Le contenu des connaissances requis des enfants relevant de l'obligation scolaire qui reçoivent une instruction dans leur famille ou dans les classes des établissements d'enseignement privés hors contrat est défini par l'annexe mentionnée à l'article D. 122-1. "

" Art. D. 131-12. - La progression retenue pour l'acquisition de ces connaissances et compétences doit être compatible avec l'âge de l'enfant et son état de santé, tout en tenant compte des aménagements justifiés par les choix éducatifs effectués. Elle doit avoir pour objet d'amener l'enfant, à l'issue de la période de l'instruction obligatoire, à la maîtrise de l'ensemble des exigences du socle commun. "

http://www.education.gouv.fr/cid24172/mene0903071d.html

USA, March 2009 : German Family Seeks U.S. Asylum to Homeschool Kids http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511825,00.html

Urgency for the REID, an idea of Farida Belghoul to help young people, over 16 years old (in France) http://blog.reid.fr/pages/entretienFaridaBelghoul

Urgency : Freedom for Homeschooling in Germany
To help the Neubronner Family, because, since Hitler's law, homeschooling is not free in Germany


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In France, going to school isn’t an obligation, but studying is It means that a child does not have to go to school, but between the ages of 6 and 16 years old, he must study. And when he is 16 years old, he must know as much as other children who went to school. It’s a large evaluation because everybody knows that there is more than one level in a class….

In fact, the home-schooled child can study depending his aspirations, his life rythms, his curiosity ; he can meet many different people, and opens himself to many kinds of domains.

He can also study by correspondence, according to the Minister of Education, he is considered to be going to school if he studies all the subjects. There are some private and expensive correspondence schools, but with admission for all, and there is a public correspondence school with two kinds of prices. One is for families who obtain the approval of the academic inspector. If he agrees, you pay less, but if he doesn’t, you pay more. And when one academic inspector says yes, it doesn’t mean that another will also say yes, it depends on where you live and the opinion of the inspector !
There is also a Belgian correspondence course, of good quality and not expensive : EAD http://www.ead.cfwb.be/ And the French desk of the American school Clonlara http://www.clonlara.org/ which isn’t a correspondence school but it has just started.

Since 1998, some stupid ill-informed politicians associated homeschooling families with sects where children can’t go outside, can’t see any outsiders. A stupid poorly conceived law was made which says that academic controls are an obligation, each year, and social control, by the social desk of the town, are an obligation every two years. These beliefs are absolutely stupid useless as showed in differents reports by the Miviludes (interministerial agency.) http://www.miviludes.gouv.fr/

The goal of the academic inspection control is to see if the child is learning and progressing. There is not a scholastic evaluation because the children don’t have to follow the same scholarly programs as other children going to public school.
The social control must see if the child lives in correct sanitary conditions and if the people who teach him are alright. Nothing more, so in the both cases, it’s important to stay on this path, and only on this path.

In France, three family organizations group the homeschooling families. They organize meetings, activities, help their members if the controls are abusive, give information and advice.
The homeschooling and unschooling universe is very open all over the world. Homeschooled children are well socialized, and meet other children, from any age, from any social class, from any place, and they meet grown-ups, handicapped people, foreigners, and thus blossom and are happy.

To get information about these organizations :
Free to learn and teach otherwise : LAIA : Libre d’Apprendre et d’Instruire Autrement : http://laia.asso.free.fr/
Children first : Les Enfants D’Abord : LEDA. : http://www.lesenfantsdabord.org/index.php
Choosing to teach his child : Choisir d’Instruire Son Enfant : CISE : http://www.cise.fr/
Instruction en famille : http://instructionenfamille.free.fr/

On September 10, 2007, a press meeting was held in Palais de la Découverte, in Paris, by LEDA. Journalists from newspapers, from radio and from TV all came. One day afterwards, a parents’ delegation from LEDA had a rendez-vous with the Education Minister. Many reports are now on the radio, the tv, and articles were written in newspapers. For the whole month of September, and especially on the 15th, events were held everywhere in the world, just to make homeschooling better known.
Don’t forget : look at JIPLI : International Freedom in Education Day : http://jipli.free.fr/

- First International day for The Freedom of Instruction - September, 2007, 15. Events will be happening in different countries.
In France, a press meeting will be held on September 10, 2007, in Paris. Events will be happening in different regions, and there will be a big picnic at midday in La Villette park in Paris.
To know more and propose ideas : http://jipli.free.fr

- In some countries it's compulsory to go to school, in others, like in France, instruction is an obligation. Parents are free to choose which kind of instruction they want for their children : public school, private school, at home, by correspondence. It's a constitutional liberty.
To know more about homeschooling in Europe, please visit Learning Unlimited website : http://www.learning-unlimited.org

At the university, I specialized in languages (finn-ugric languages : hungarian and estonian, but also japanese), anthropology and linguistics, especially lexicology because of my interest in the relationship between languages and culture.

Because this interest, I've thought about social living, children in plurilingual families, beliefs about birth and sorcerer midwives, and when they appeared, The Love messages of Minitel in France, about fantasizing about masculine pregnancy. I've worked on these different topics giving conferences about them and wrote an article.

- Article : "Growing up in a plurilingal family", published in The Child and the Life (L'Enfant et la Vie), n°131, 3rd trimester 2002, pp 34-36 http://www.lenfantetlavie.fr/


- Conference : "Sorcerer midwifes in Hungary" for National Professionel Organization of Midwife "Maternity and Communication"
"Maternité et Communication" April 1998, text published then in the review of this organization, Paris, 2nd trimester 1998.

In Budapest, Hungary, from 1986 to 1987, I gave some conferences in the Institute for Interpreters and Translators http://www.nyi.bme.hu/ford/szfindex.htm , I talked about Evolution of table manners, Love Messages of Minitel, and Masculine pregnancy after reading the book of Elisabeth Badinter : L'un est l'autre, One is the Other.

In Education and Culture, we find, of course, the experience of school, is totally different depending the country. There is also another way to go, the way of homeschooling. I've taught for many years, in Hungary in Szentes http://www.hmg.hu/tanarok/index.html and in France, french for foreigners and for native french speakers. I've participated in educative programs on the Hungarian TV, between 1985 and 1987 and in September 2000, on the educative program of Emmanuelle Bastide, from RFI - Radio France International- http://www.rfi.fr/radiofr/emissions/072/accueil_19.asp. "The Knowledge of school" about the beginning the school term –homeschooling style, because it's my daily life and the life of my children.
Some of these interventions has been made with the name of Bernadette Pain.