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11/04/2008, 13:33 deadbeat Joined on 11/04/2008 Posts 7 Re: Home Tuition  NormanH wrote:  deadbeat wrote: Hello,  this is my first message here. we want to teach him at home, partly for his educational needs and mostly for his cultural and social needs...  I can appreciate that you might wish to educate him at home for academic reasons, but not for cultural or social ones. Interreaction with other children is essential for social development, and if he is to develop a fluent French also. You don't say which region you live in but it sounds a bit like Brittany. Dordogne. He has lots of French Friends (all in fact) whom he sees most days after school and on weekends.  I think he will be fine    Report

11/04/2008, 14:09 NormanH Joined on 10/04/2008 Posts 179 Re: Home Tuition Cathy "Home educated children are protected" I think that is what worries me! A comparision would be to try to protect children from a flu virus, by keeping them away from other children. When they finally catch it they have no immunity from previous exposure. Isn't it better to let them have experience of the big bad world and pilot them through it with a close family support? The original poster's son is 14, and will come across the negatives soon enough.    Report

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