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Local Overseas Schools? Series Part #2 , Your child’s education and what you should do about it? , Local schools for expats and is it right for you? … While in an overseas expat context? Is it worth it? This blog will explore some of these ideas … By CPO, from the far side of the planet! :)
Local Overseas Schools? … By CPO, from the far side of the planet!
One of the choices international expat families choose for their children is local schools. These schools usually come in 2 or 3 different flavours – pure local schools, local schools that cater to foreign expatriate families and variations of the above in the private school sector but are not international schools with a foreign curriculum.
Advantages
The advantages to such local schools is many fold, but namely they boil down to flexibility, culture, languages and saving money.
Flexibility
So why do you say flexibility? The reasons are perhaps obvious and not so obvious. First of all is location, location, location. When it comes to local schools they are everywhere and usually in close proximity to your home. Near our home are a zillion kindergartens, Primary Schools, Middle Schools and High Schools. So if you add local schools to your mix of choices, your options multiply exceedingly. Depending on where you live there will usually be a large range of school options near to your doorstep.
What About The Cultural Bubble World?
Your Child’s Education and What You Should Do About It? Homeschooling, is it right for you? … While in an Overseas Expat Life Context? Is it worth it? This blog will explore some of these ideas … By CPO, From the Far Side of the Planet
So you have decided to travel the world?
So you have decided to travel the world doing outreach with kids and now what? Education?
Okay you are sent off as an international expat to some far hidden corner of the planet, and so where do you park the kids in school now?
Wife!!!: “Well dear, if we go overseas, where should we educate our kids? “
Impish looking husband: “Um good question honey …” 🙂
It is perennial question for newbie expats with kids or newbie newlyweds with babies? … on the horizon. The usual avenues are international schools, local schools or homeschool.
This article will focus on homeschooling seeing the other avenues for your child’s education will be explored in other posts.
A new environment
Wife: “But what were you expecting? What is wrong with pizza with squid on it? It is perfectly normal here!”
Husband: “Hmmm well at least they have pizza, ummmm that is pizza? Isn’t it?”
The smiling local says 🙂 “Well we call it … विद्रूप पिज्जा vidroop pijja (Hindi)”
Usually newbie expats or parents have no idea of what they are getting themselves into when going overseas. You hop on the plane zipping around the world, jump off the plane with your luggage and kids in tow or expecting wife and expect America? Canada? Australia, Britain?
My story – A little
I work as an international school teacher … so I am able to live, work and stay anywhere in the world that I can get a job. I am F.I. (Financially Independent), but not R.E. (Retired Early). In fact I have become a multi-millionaire by living and investing overseas. So I am free to do outreach work as an international expat until I die.
I live in Asia and travel around the world or locally or back to North America as I get 3 months holidays each year. In the past 3 years we have been to Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, and China and the like. My homebase is here in Asia and so I have a green card too.
Thus I am kind of like a dual citizen. I don’t need a Visa …
Where are my colleagues and classmates now or have worked?
International schools are cool! Heck living overseas as an international expat is cool! Who wouldn’t want to travel the world and get paid to do it.