Home-school Approved
We met the highest school official for Tyrol yesterday and in 30 minutes everything was approved for home-schooling.
We were originally told by the school board that by law we were required to put Tessa back in school immediately. We were continually stone-walled and delayed from taking any action. We had the feeling that actually, they simply didn't want to figure out what to do with us.
We went to Tessa's old school to talk to the principal about putting her back in school there. He said there was no way we could do that and he said we should talk to someone else.
With this we started to play hard ball. We went directly to the highest school official in the state. We knocked on his door and walked in. We layed a copy of our registration to home-school on the table which we had submitted in time nearly a year ago.
He heard our case and pulled out the law book. He saw that actually if we haven't heard a reply within a month's time from the school board then by default the request and application is approved.
He picked up the phone and called the the principal. He turned on the speaker phone and asked him in front of us if he had received our request. With a lot of uh... uhs, he said yes.
We will receive the official decision this week. We now have to work hard to pass the Austrian testing at the end of the school year --in three months.
Welcome to Austrian bureacracy and tyrolian stubborness all compounded by being foreigners and multiplied again by doing things different from the accepted way.
We were originally told by the school board that by law we were required to put Tessa back in school immediately. We were continually stone-walled and delayed from taking any action. We had the feeling that actually, they simply didn't want to figure out what to do with us.
We went to Tessa's old school to talk to the principal about putting her back in school there. He said there was no way we could do that and he said we should talk to someone else.
With this we started to play hard ball. We went directly to the highest school official in the state. We knocked on his door and walked in. We layed a copy of our registration to home-school on the table which we had submitted in time nearly a year ago.
He heard our case and pulled out the law book. He saw that actually if we haven't heard a reply within a month's time from the school board then by default the request and application is approved.
He picked up the phone and called the the principal. He turned on the speaker phone and asked him in front of us if he had received our request. With a lot of uh... uhs, he said yes.
We will receive the official decision this week. We now have to work hard to pass the Austrian testing at the end of the school year --in three months.
Welcome to Austrian bureacracy and tyrolian stubborness all compounded by being foreigners and multiplied again by doing things different from the accepted way.
posted by Paul at
8:42 PM
3 Comments:
this is great news! i'm glad this is finally getting worked out!
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Tom, at 4:43 AM
Hello Paul!
Well done for defeating the awful Austrian bureaucracy! I'm thinking of educating my son at home here in Vienna. Where did you get your information from please? I'm finding it difficult to get anything at all.
Thanks.
P
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Anonymous, at 5:14 PM
Good for you! Glad to hear that things are moving forward. God always has the last word. Keep honoring and glorifying Him in all of this and always trust in Jesus no matter how difficult things may get.
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