France

Home Schooling Laws in France.

Home schooling in France is officially permitted and is rapidly growing in popularity today.

The law of December 18th, 1998 has made yearly registration obligatory. A school inspector inspects the home schooled child once a year. If the result of two inspections repeated within a year will be unacceptable, the inspector can order parents to send their children to the state school.

  In France, the number of home schooled children is less than 20,000, not counting another 40,000 children who study outside of school in state programs because of illness or careers in sports or music.

But a decade ago there were even fewer of them, and the fastly growing amount of children educated at home is supposed to be a warning signal about the health of the public school system and the quality of education it gives.

French law allows home schooling officially but the majority of French people don not know they have this choice.