Education

[Mr Cassandra]

Can anyone help I own A 44 ft boat And would like to liveaboard in the eastern Med Problem is how do we educate the children? One 10 other 9 . Bill Copper gave us an address but after we enquired the cost were very high aprox £7500 pa As we only have a budget £17000pa we think this will leave us living to close to the edge Can anyone help perhaps or give me e-mail addreses of other liveaboard how have the same problems and have overcome themCheers Bob T

Bob T

 

[Guest]

Teach them yourself

I think this is what most do. Particularly the age group of your children.

Seems to work ok too.

 

[Guest]

Do you think that that is wise?

Telegrams went out of the window many years ago. Commas, Capitals and Full Stops are still part of the learning equation.

 

[Guest]

I have met several young people who where educated at home and all seem exeptionally self relient, self motiveded and capable. My own school experience was of being bullied by children and derided by teachers (I am dislexic) it took me till I was in my thirties to recover and go back to higher Ed where I taught adult returners many of whom had similar experiences. I would teach kids at home wether living aboad or not!

Have you thought of using local schools or private tutors to support your teaching? Also I have heard of something called the international baccalorate which is, I think, a Europe wide GCSE and A level equivelent similar to Scotish certificates. Some teachers who may be happy to advise on praticallities and options also look at some of the web resources which are very good.

By the way £7500 should buy about 15-20 hours of private tuition per week during the school year so does sound expensive.

PS Don't have kids myself so havent had to face this. My experience comes from 15 years in youth work and adult education.

Roly, Voya Con Dios, Glasson, Lancaster

 

[billskip]

Hi Bob where in eastern med do you want to live or do you want to move about? I know teachers in Aegina town.. not far from your boat.. also Poros

Reg Bill

 

[Guest]

Re: education otherwise

Talk to these people we did teach our first son at home until he was seven ,then because we felt his reading and writing was not progressing enough sent him to the local school .
He then went backwards and learned ethnic stuff !!!
Any way you should try and get hold of E/O they will give you the best advice .
Also bet you wont have any trouble getting the odd teacher to come out there to both teach and holiday

 

[Mr Cassandra]

Hello All Ideally, I would like to move around,Taking it easy going down through the ,Cyclades. Wintering in Cyprus . The problem is I am dyslectic And find it hard to write. Even for this post I have to use a dictionary .So to miss out fullstops and commers is not hard .So it will be very dificult . My wife is very good but I do not think it fair to put this responsibilty on one pair of shoulders .It has to be a joint effert. I have recived a private e-mail from a poster called John.Which is very interesting. Once I have composed a reply I will contact him .Please will you carry on giving advice Cheers Bob T

Bob T

 

[Stemar]

I led a nomadic existence (not sailing, unfortunately) for many years. As a result, the only way to keep any continuity in my kids' education was to home educate. My wife and I have no pretensions to expertise, but we did OK (especially the wife).

There's lots of info on the net about it, but most needs to be taken with a large pince of salt, as it's posted by fanaticallly anti-school system types. Education Otherwise is one of the saner sources. (http://www.education-otherwise.org/)

There are plenty of workbooks about (Smiths, Dillons), which are useful, and if each child gets 7 - 8 hours individual tuition a week, that's far more than they'd get at school. The big trick is to turn everything into a learning experience - navigation can become a geography lesson, shopping covers modern languages and maths, etc.

If you have a hard time with written English, could you cover maths and science?

It can be done, and the big advantage is that you have the possiblity of instilling a level of curiosity that means the children will practically educate themselves.

You also have a lot of flexiblity in timing. If you want to do something else today, go and do it. It'll almost certainly be educative, and they can catch up on academic work tomorrow

The downside is that if you go beyond about 13 years, they'll miss out on GCSEs and such like, and that can be a problem later in life.

Good luck

Steve

 

[Jeremy_W]

Reading not progressing fast enough?

In most of Europe, Japan or Singapore, a 7 year-old would not even have started to read and write. If you have the freedom of home education, why duplicate one of the basic faults of the English system?

 

[Mr Cassandra]

Thank You For your coments. A very balanced pragmatic answer bob t

Bob T