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homeschoolingcr
  4/1/2019 16:40 EST

Hello.

Recently a a lot of families living o considering moving to Costa Rica believe they can homeschool their children. These well intentioned parents are being mislead into committing felonies in Costa Rica.

Homeschooling is ilegal in Costa Rica, for both national and foreign children. Local authorities can force parents to send their children to a local public (free) school, and if you refuse to comply, authorities can take more severe actions.

We recommend to check this web site with official information about homeschooling in Costa Rica: https://homeschoolingcostarica.org

acastillo
  4/2/2019 07:55 EST

What is your intention with creating this website? If you believe that homeschooling parents are "well intentioned" why do you include instructions on how to report them to authorities?

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acastillo
  4/2/2019 07:55 EST

What is your intention with creating this website? If you believe that homeschooling parents are "well intentioned" why do you include instructions on how to report them to authorities?

ILuvCR
  4/2/2019 09:03 EST

is it "illegal"?

homeschooling? hmmm

This site has no "spellcheck" so keep from looking like an idiot I try to cut and paste my comments in to "Word" first to clean then up!

jajaja, I tried to misspell paste here!

Kohl
  4/2/2019 13:28 EST

This website may help advise potential newcomers from coming and learning about this issue, sooner rather than later.

Children, can attend schools here and benefit from doing additional classes 'online.'

Over the years, I have seen quite a few kids /families living in very rural/basic conditions and there is no way that they were being educated by 'home schooling'. I have also known families, former neighbors, where PANI has become involved.

One real estate agent had to either leave the country or send his children to school. He left the country.

acastillo
  4/2/2019 14:13 EST

Hi Kohl. So you are saying you've known more than one family where pani got involved due to homeschooling or just the one? Did pani get involved solely because of homeschooling or was there another incident that brought pani into the situation first?

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Kohl
  4/2/2019 15:05 EST

One was a neighboring family who clashed with PANI after we had left the area, but we did know of others. We had purchased many items for their newly born twin babies and other items for this family because their home had no electricity nor screened/glass windows to keep out insects, of which there was many. Provided mosquito netting, for all beds. They had 4 children when we left and then had two more. They had no source of income except selling some organic produce and getting funds for hosting WWOOF'ers (willing workers of organic farms). PANI got involved due to the home schooling issue but many Ticos in the area were concerned by the living conditions. This family and us, were the only North Americans in the area.
Years ago, there was on the 'net a sad article of a family in Puriscal who we knew slightly as a friend of friends. And the real estate agent as previously mentioned.

Blueridgeboy1
  4/3/2019 16:37 EST

Acastillo The OP did not create that web site. S/he just pointed it out. The site belongs to PANI, as you would know by looking at it. The OP is just being a good person by bringing this important official information to our attention. Avoiding legal confrontations is a good thing. To be forewarned is to be forearmed, they say. I read a lot of posts in this forum by people intending to move to CR without researching the relevant laws regarding work, school, etc. Links to official websites is a community service.

Blueridgeboy1
  4/3/2019 17:32 EST

Acastillo I was in error when I posted earlier that the website was an official PANI site. I was wrong, and owe you an apology. I tried to edit my post, but found no way to do that. So I reported my own post as abusive, and that may make it disappear. Still, I think it is good to bring these issues and the information into plain view, to keep people from getting into trouble by assuming too much (a sin I seem to be too guilty of, myself).

acastillo
  4/3/2019 23:59 EST

That is most definitely not the pani website or any official government website or it would end in go.cr
As to whether it is a community service or someone with an axe to grind I'll reserve judgement until the OP follows up to my question

acastillo
  4/5/2019 13:20 EST

No offense taken.

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