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The following question is from Jordan A.
“My husband and I are missionaries in Scotland (he’s the minister of a church here) along with our children ages 7, 5, 3 and 8 months. I homeschooled the oldest for kindergarten at our home out in the country when we still lived in the USA.
Once we moved here a year ago we tried the UK public system. Needless to say we’re going back to homeschooling again this fall with my oldest in 2nd grade and our 5-year-old starting kindergarten.
In the US we lived in rural Missouri and it wasn’t a problem to do schooling uninterrupted each day.
What do you all do when you encounter interruptions? Living as a missionary in Scotland it’s very common for someone to “pop round for a cuppa” at any time during the day staying to chat at least an hour. I am afraid this fall when we start homeschooling again that I will continue encounter this. While it is what I consider these social calls a vital part of my ministry here, it also will present a major problem for uninterrupted school time, especially for the one-on-one needed for kindergarten.”