Ok, I've checked. Apparently it's possible through some very loose interpretation of the law and some additional, and relatively recent, act of the government,

Ok, I've checked. Apparently it's possible through some very loose interpretation of the law and some additional, and relatively recent, act of the government, which among other things mandates that the parents providing homeschooling need to prove their "financial and technical ability" to do so. Which sounds pretty unlikely since the public school teachers are pretty specialized. In practice in Italy it's such a marginal phenomenon that the law is simply providing a loophole for a tiny minority of very combative people who prefer to give to their children what is ultimately a worse education (if you just wanted to add to the education provided for free by public schools nobody prevented you to do so anyway). In any case these kids need to go through a yearly exam to check on their progress and move to the next "class". Edit: I add what seems to me a very reasonable sentence of the European Court of Human Rights, that upheld Germany's ban on homeschooling: "children are unable to foresee the consequences of their parents' decision for home education because of their young age.... Schools represent society, and it is in the children's interest to become part of that society. The parents' right to educate does not go as far as to deprive their children of that experience."