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| Home-schooling: There are still points to develop |
| Bratislava, 22.12.2016 |
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| Home-schooling has been legal in Slovakia for eight years, the announced school reform should bring more changes.
The dream of every pupil: not having to wake up in the morning and go to school, can be a reality for students in Slovakia through home schooling.
In Slovakia, it is compulsory to attend school from age six to age 16. In a few months, however, what is now known as compulsory attendance will turn into compulsory education and be prolonged by two years (five to 17). The Education Ministry stresses that compulsory education should also involve the possibility of individual study plans or home-schooling, based on its draft reform presented to the public in October.
There are 95 home-schoolers in Slovakia as of September 2015, based on data from the EducationMinistry.
Law poses restrictions
For now, home-schooling is governed by a law that was passed in 2008 and that authorises home-schooling only for children aged six to 10, during the first stage of primary education.
Jana Žitňanská, currently an MEP, dealt with home-schooling five years ago as an MP, when she, together with her colleagues, proposed an amendment to the law on home-schooling. The parliament, however, did not support the proposal.
“Since then, the Education Ministry shows no effort to change the conditions for parents who want to teach their child at home, or [to introduce] a pilot project of home-schooling at upper primary school levels,” said Jana Žitňanská.
Leaving the country to home-school
Currently, parents who want to continue home-schooling their children also in the upper primary school years, are forced to move abroad, usually to the Czech Republic, where experimental home-schooling education at upper primary levels is allowed.
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