Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

Homeschooling is showing up in some of the most unlikely places. Mike Smith and Chris Klicka talk about homeschooling in Eastern Europe on today's Home School Heartbeat.

Mike Smith:
Most of the nations in Eastern Europe still suffer from the ravages of communism. Yet despite the odds against it, this region of the world is seeing several fledgling homeschool movements emerge. Chris, what have you seen in these countries?


Chris Klicka:
What I've seen has been very exciting. The educational system is in a mess in Eastern European countries, but yet, more and more families are turning to homeschooling as an answer to this problem.


For instance, in the country of Hungary, we were able to assist a young man and his wife to start a national Hungarian homeschool association. They've already got 30 to 40 families that are homeschooling as private schools in Hungary. In Romania, we are working with a homeschool dad of a very young family to help make it legal, because it's currently not legal, and we're working with the vice-chairman of the education committee in Parliament to make it hopefully legal by next year. In the Czech Republic we've been able to assist them through calling out homeschool families to contact the Czech parliament, and last year we were able to literally shut down the parliament for one day and stop a very bad bill that would have outlawed homeschooling.


Mike:
That's a great report, Chris, and I want to thank you personally for your important role in expanding the freedom to home educate around the world. And until next time, I'm Mike Smith.