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Originally Posted by Gunther wurth
We are from South Africa and will eventually be sailing, our daughter is currently being homeschooled by a teacher, but we would like to find out what school curriculum everyone sailing is using, that when we go sailing we can homeschool on the boat and when we are anywhere in the world, she can also go to a normal school.
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Gunther, congratulations on your decision! The cruising lifestyle tends to turn out pretty amazing kids. We see it all the time.
Our kids were 12 & 15 when we set off in 2001. We used an academy for university bound homeschoolers which is gone now but I'd think you could find others. Ours agreed with us that the
cruise was a large part of the education, so getting
scuba certified & a taking a
Galapagos tour with a naturalist both showed up on their transcripts, with credits depending on how much time was spent. This also allowed us to tailor the curriculum to where we were. Cruising friends from Down Under usually had more rigid curriculums & it seemed sad that their kids had to study, say, ancient
Greece when we were sitting in
French Polynesia. Our kids were required to study (& write about, on our website) where we were, which made it much more relevant for them (& us).
Most of these responses are from the US, & since you aren't, you should know some things. The US has no unified HS graduation exams, so no real standards. Yes, crazy. Instead, they have University entrance exams (given through
CollegeBoard.org, which are given at many
English speaking high schools around the world. Each Uni also has a different application process, which may include writing samples. Our son did his exams (& Uni applications) in
Fiji.
Since the academy we used is defunct, we don't write about it much, but Chris wrote his thoughts about
Cruising Life, and
Amanda also wrote about her experiences, & each wrote their own
parts of the website. Sue also wrote about
Cruising with Teens.
Good luck!