Home-schooling Severely Limited

Country: Slovakia

Date of incident: May 21, 2013


Home-schooling is severely limited in Slovakia. In fact, it is allowed only for pupils of 1st - 4th class in basic schools, for disabled children, or for children in custody and who are not able to go to school for longer than two months for health reasons. Permission for “individual education” must be granted by the director of the district school of the pupil. Another major problem is that the person who teaches the pupils must have a pedagogical university qualification. As a consequence, home-schooling is very rare in Slovakia.

Source and further information: The Observatory's Report 2012 on Legal Restrictions Effecting Christians in Europe