Talk about Homeschooling... Class of One... great pictures and story

[wakeme2008]

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Seven-year-old Matthew Hansen lives on a farm in such an isolated spot in the Falkland Islands that he can't attend normal school.

He instead receives camp education – "camp" being the Falklands name for any place outside the capital Stanley.

Every six weeks, a travelling teacher comes to live with the family for a fortnight, giving him lessons in a little prefab schoolroom on the farm. For the other four weeks, Matthew is taught by telephone, and by mum Susie and dad



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/in_pictures_class_of_one/html/1.stm

[hobbit709]

1. And he probably has

a better, more well-rounded education than the average American kid.

[rfranklin]

2. Oh really? Do you think that Mum and Dad are intellectuals living in...

the middle of nowhere? I doubt it seriously.

[hobbit709]

4. I bet he can find the Falklands on a map

40% of American high schoolers recently couldn't find the US on an outline map of the continents. You'd be surprised at the number of people living in the middle of nowhere who are better read than the average American living in a large city.

[leftyclimber]

3. There are places in Eastern Oregon where they do something similar.

There are kids living so far away from any school (big, big cattle ranches) that it would be impossible to bus them, so for K-8 they send teachers around to give them one-on-one education. In high school, they all go to a state-funded boarding school. You've got to educate 'em somehow.

I would imagine other states with areas with serious low population density do the same. Anyone from other states with similar programs?

[wakeme2008]

5. Alaska comes to my mind and LOL texas.

I have a friend that is a freq. cruiser and she lives on a ranch with the nearest grocery/restaurant being 59 miles away. Probably not a lot of schools out her way.