Which Countries Have Banned Homeschooling?
Most homeschoolers know that Germany has banned homeschooling, but many people do not realize how many other countries have made home education illegal. Indeed, twenty-eight countries have explicity banned homeschooling and nine more have made it nearly impossible to practice.
In fact, Germany is actually more tolerant of homeschooling than many other countries, since it allows exceptions to its no-homeschooling rule in cases where "continued school attendance would create undue hardship for an individual child." More than two dozen countries have outlawed homeschooling for any reason.
Thirty countries have laws that allow for home education, though they are often restrictive. Other countries officially ban homeschooling but rarely prosecute, and others do not address homeschooling at all in their laws.
Curious what the homeschooling laws are around the world? Here are the current lists of countries that have outlawed homeschooling and those that have passed laws that make it virtually impossible, along with those who legally allow homeschooling for their citizens.
The following countries have explicitly forbidden homeschooling in their national laws with no exceptions:
* Albania
* Andorra
* Armenia
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Bosnia and Herz
* Brazil
* Croatia
* Cuba
* Cyprus
* El Salvador
* Georgia
* Greece
* Greenland
* Guatemala
* Kazakhstan
* Latvia
* Liechtenstein
* Lithuania
* Macedonia
* Malta
* Moldova
* Montenegro
* San Marino (Italy)
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Turkey
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