So I write to keep those who might read this up-to-date:

IF YOU CAN HELP, I really would appreciate any possible solution!

The run down:

We hope to come at the latest beginning April.

Talita’s principle has told me (via her homeroom teacher–I still have yet to meet the principle) that she cannot grant Talita to leave the school for that long without a school registration from the school in Canada which she would be attending.  They need an acceptance letter, name, contact info (tel. and postal address).

This posses various problems:  an acceptance letter comes once I have applied and payed for her to attend the school.  I would rather do that ONCE I have assurance that the kid can then leave school here…!  Because I probably will not get my money back….!

Basically they figure that the kid will only learn anything if she is in a school building (cause the institutional walls and roof are so important to learning).  There is a German homeschooling “company” which works for the government to facilitate Missionaries and diplomates living outside of Germany whose children will someday essentially return to the German school system.  This is a certified programme and would give the children report cards which are catering directly to the system they are currently schooled in.  This would erase any potential problems with the curriculum not matching up (if the children were to visit a Canadian school).

I do not know if the school would allow the children (or more specifically Talita) to do this instead of sitting out her time in a canadian school only to sit in the evenings to do her German school work.

My question is this:

Is there a homeschooling “system” based in Ontario (with address/phone numbers, all contacts in Ontario), which would also write us report cards.  I am thinking of something like Clonlara.  It does not need to be Clonlara, but funktion like Clonlara… Then I would bring the school books with the kids and homeschool them myself and get credit for various things in agreeance with the homeschool organization…

Does that make sense to anyone?  Any suggestions?  Help!