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Pre-School and Homeschooling

Hi all,
we currently live in Germany and we are thinking about moving abroad. One of the options is Bulgaria, namely Sofia. My wife and I speak Russian, not as mother tongue, but well enough, and our children know quite a bit of it too. If we would decide to move to Bulgaria, we would learn Bulgarian.

It is on our wish-list that we could do homeschooling with our kids, both in pre-school and school age (in Germany pre-school isn't mandatory, but school is).

Could someone please tell me if that would be possible for our family to do this? If so, what would be the requirements?

From what I've read online and via ChatGPT is that homeschooling is somewhat in the grey zone, and that government is a bit relaxed when it comes to kids of expats. I've also read that pre-school is mandatory for kids from the age of 4.

EDIT: I am not here to discuss pros and cons of homeschooling. I am aware of the fact that Bulgarian is not my mother tongue, and neither of my wife, and that our kids would be going to school at some point. I am just interested in possibilities, because I imagine Bulgaria to be a country to be with less regulations than Germany (I am from Lithuania, and it has less regulations than Germany).

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u/rokgarm — 7 days ago