{"id":22837,"date":"2023-07-05T11:16:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T09:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/chantal-our-children-developed-faster-on-the-trip\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T09:16:41","slug":"chantal-our-children-developed-faster-on-the-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/en\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/chantal-our-children-developed-faster-on-the-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Chantal: \u2018Our children developed faster on the trip\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chantal, Roel and their children Fey (10) and Nova (8) traveled for eight months through South America. Read how they combined this with education.","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday-and-compulsory-education","category-interviews"],"acf":{"auteur":"","foto":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Chantal-en-gezin-scaled.jpg","naam":"Chantal","quote":"We decided to stop dreaming and find out how we could make this possible","samenvatting":"Chantal, Roel and their children Fey (10) and Nova (8) traveled for eight months through South America. Read how they combined this with education.","banner_afbeelding":"https:\/\/oudersenonderwijs.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Chantal-en-gezin-scaled.jpg","banner_subtitel":"","inhoud":[{"acf_fc_layout":"inhoud_blok","afbeelding_of_video":"geen","afbeelding":false,"video":null,"intro":"Months in distant places, spending a lot of time with your family and immersing yourself in other cultures. Many parents dream of this but do not see the chance to do it with children at school. Chantal and her husband Roel did. Together with their children Fey (10) and Nova (8), they went on a world trip. 'They have made progress they would never have made so quickly in the Netherlands.'","inhoud":"

Stop dreaming<\/h3>\n

In 2009, Chantal and her husband Roel worked for a year in Peru. Both always had the dream to return and see more of the world. With school children, it is quickly thought that this is not possible, but Chantal and Roel did it differently. ‘We decided to stop dreaming but find out how we could make this possible,’ says Chantal. This is how a plan was made to travel for eight months with their children Fey and Nova through South America and the United States. ‘It is not easy to save money for it, but people also spend a lot on, for example, a wedding. It is a matter of setting priorities.’ A tip from Chantal is to compare the costs per destination. ‘For example, Asia is much cheaper than South America,’ she explains.<\/p>\n

Compulsory education?<\/h3>\n

The first step is a conversation with the school principal. Although the principal said it would not be for her, she was immediately enthusiastic about Chantal’s plans. ‘The school said it was enough to teach the children math, language, and spelling and that they would learn enough on the trip.’ But how about compulsory education? Chantal explains that if you are not in the Netherlands for eight months or longer, you are required to deregister with the municipality. You then indicate that you are emigrating. This cancels the compulsory education of the children. You can re-register when you return. ‘It says in our record that we were in America. That was our first destination.’<\/p>\n

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Schedule: Math and caring for turtles<\/h3>\n

‘We usually spent the mornings on school tasks. We tried different things but noticed that the focus in the afternoon was much less. ‘But there were days that were so educational that we also did nothing for school.’ They cared for turtles, went on hikes and the children played a lot with local school children, Chantal explains. ‘The children do not speak Spanish, but one of the nicest things was that they played with children everywhere very quickly. Children’s games like tag and hide and seek are of course the same.’ The family also stayed for a while with Americans with children of the same age. ‘The children really experienced American life here and the nice thing was: Fey talked for hours with these children, in English!’<\/p>\n