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SoulRiser
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School-Free: Alternative education around the world
http://wiki.school-survival.net/
There doesn't seem to be much easy-to-find info on alternatives in countries that aren't the US. So, post whatever you can find and whatever you do know from experience in your own country... I'll make it pretty some other time. For now it'll have to do as-is. Don't worry about making it sound Wikipedia-like or organized or whatever. If nothing else, paste some links to sites with info on them.
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Re: School-Free: Alternative education around the world
I wonder what sort of organizations or persons you could contact to find out about this kind of information. That's part of the reason why it's hard even for US kids to drop out sometimes because there's so much misinformation and misunderstandings. We just need the laws, with non sequiturs about dropping out being bad etc. aside.
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Re: School-Free: Alternative education around the world
This page on Wikipedia has a decent amount of info on the status of homeschooling in a bunch of countries. But yeah, I guess this wiki will grow pretty slowly, and mostly based on what people can tell us from personal experience. I've added a bunch of things, and I guess it'll be my job to fill up the South Africa section. 
Where is Puchiko when you really need her? 
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Re: School-Free: Alternative education around the world
Nice job, this wiki will kick ass once people start filling stuff out 
Nice Idea
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Re: School-Free: Alternative education around the world
This is pure awesomeness
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Re: School-Free: Alternative education around the world
Not really, it's not. No-one has contributed anything yet...
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Re: School-Free: Alternative education around the world
Well, it hasn't even been up for 24 hours yet... I'll fill it in myself if I have to scour the internet for weeks... I'll do it.
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Re: School-Free: Alternative education around the world
It's still pure awesomeness, and if it fills up then it's godlike awesomeness.
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Re: School-Free: Alternative education around the world
psychopath Wrote:It's still pure awesomeness, and if it fills up then it's godlike awesomeness.
what will it become if we don't have contributions for the next month?
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26 Wrote:psychopath Wrote:It's still pure awesomeness, and if it fills up then it's godlike awesomeness.
what will it become if we don't have contributions for the next month?
It would be nice if you stopped being negative about things like this.
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SoulRiser Wrote:Where is Puchiko when you really need her?
You didn't need me before? :waah: /me throws temper tantrum
I'll get around to it  But I can only do Czech Republic, a small, fucked up country with very few alternatives. I'll do it as soon as possible though.
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Quote:You didn't need me before? :waah: /me throws temper tantrum
lulz.
Quote:I'll get around to it But I can only do Czech Republic, a small, fucked up country with very few alternatives. I'll do it as soon as possible though.
No problemo. Main reason I mentioned you is 'cause you know your way around wikis
I had to make the main page editable by registered people only, 'cause it got overrun by spammers already. Gets defaced like 10 times a day... I can't keep up with all that reverting. So yeah, if you wanna edit the main page you'll need to sign up first. 
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I'm actually registered there already. I don't think i'll be able to contributed much, execpt for wikifixes and flipping back vandalism, but I still registered.
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Every little bit helps
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The swiss are natorious for private schools, add a link for them on the wiki plese
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Quote:The swiss are natorious for private schools, add a link for them on the wiki plese
Done.
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no lie he knew what he was talking about he did a good job
life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
-weeds-
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. -socrates-
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Not caring about our interests and dreams to heed
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Re: School-Free: Alternative education around the world
Sounds like something copied off the Teenager Liberation Handbook, but I'm a bit lazy to do a ctrl+F right now.
Let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass.
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I'm sorry but the convincing parents page doesn't seem that good to me. I did more than that when I was going to convince my dad to let me drop out and I got laughed at. The information in there is inaccurate as well.
I will put aside some time in the future to re-write it.
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. - Baba Ram Dass
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