Hello all,

I am new here and have a question that I hope someone can help me with. Our family is moving to Costa Rica from California in July. We have decided to home school our children (ages 13 and 10) there. We are looking for information that will help our transition. We are intersted in a secular program that will allow our children to recieve a high school diploma when completed.

Any advice, suggestions, links, etc?

Thanks,

Kurt
CA

There are many ways to get a high school diploma through correspondence. Homeschooling has grown so dramatically that the number of choices available to you are amazing.

You may want to start by just doing a search on the web, but here are a few suggestions:

http://www.keystonehighschool.com/

http://www.laurelsprings.com/

Thinking about making the move to Costa Rica from Denver. How's the homeschooling going. I have a daughter 13 and a son 6. Any advice appreciated. I hope your still out there in cyberspace. Joanne

Thinking about making the move to Costa Rica from Denver. How's the homeschooling going. I have a daughter 13 and a son 6. Any advice appreciated. I hope your still out there in cyberspace. Joanne

Hi Joanne,

Well, we made the move to Costa Rica and have started home schooling. We have also started construction of our new home. You can check out the progress at our website.

www.cabinas-tranquilo.com

Homeschooling is going well. We purchased the Oak Meadow program. They are accredited through high school so our daughters will receive a high school diploma from California.
My youngest daughter (10 years) will be starting public school in our village. This will be mostly to make friends and learn spanish. She will still continue with home school. My oldest daughter has been invited to assist with the 6-8 year olds at the elementary school. We have become friends with the woman who runs/teaches at the local village school.

Have you been to Costa Rica before? Where do you plan to relocate? We are on the central pacific coast about 20 minutes south of Jaco Beach. Our village is called Esterillos Oeste. very quaint and very local. We can't wait to move into our house.

I have set up a home computer network so our kids can keep in touch with their friends via email and Instant Messaging.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

regards,

Kurt Raihn
Pura Vida

I'm moving to Costa Rica Sep. 2005 and we do have a family of 4 children going w/ us, and we do plane to do some home school and maybe put my 12y old girl at public school. How your 10y old is doing at public school and home school? How many hours she is going? Do you have any sugestions?

Linda Costa
hummingbird_love@yahoo.com

I know that deciding on a curriculum is one of the most important decisions that a parent can make. We at Global Student Network would be pleased if you would consider our curriculum

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I hope to hear from you soon.

Don Posson
VP, Technology and Operations

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At 21:15 29/09/2005, Yitzchak Eshed wrote:
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>I'm visiting San Jose with my 7 year ols daughter from 16.10. till
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>Love, Rivka and Nesyah from Jerusalem.



Sure, you may want to join the HSCR list
(http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/hscr) and post something
there, that way more people know you are coming.

We would be happy to meet with you, give us a cal at 282 1970.

We have two daughters, 13 and 9.

Shalom,
--jorge