> i am mainly thinking of the montessori education model. it has proven itself. and teacher training is not expensive. it only takes one year if done fulltime.

> i am mainly thinking of the montessori education model. it has proven itself. and teacher training is not expensive. it only takes one year if done fulltime. My wife is a big fan of the Waldorf schools and has said she'd went to replicate a lot of their approach if we homeschooled. We actually lived a few blocks away from one in the Netherlands and had planned on sending kids there, but have since moved back to the US and are nowhere near a Waldorf. That's really interesting to hear why homeschooling is banned in Germany. I was pretty sure it is either banned or extremely limited in the Netherlands as well, but never dug into why when we lived there. Integration and socialization is definitely a challenge for homeschooling. The friends and family I have that either are homeschooling or did in the past had good luck with getting their kids into the same sports leagues that public school students do, though that still doesn't replace 7+ hours a day of interacting with a school full of kids your own age.