> I have no desire to be confrontational,
I must apologize if I seemed confrontational, as you are not at all so.
Please contact the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, http://www.hslda.org/ for the best options for your country and situation.
Apparently, they have enjoyed a homescchool victory in Canada, recently.
http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/2012/201203271.asp
Given your situation, however, homeschooling may not be practical. If you are churchgoers, perhaps you can organize a church school with like-minded parents and grandparents in your situation. You would basically be establishing a one-room schoolhouse after the Noah Webster model.
You could hire one or more of your church members to teach the school. That means that the participating parents and relatives would share the costs, and perhaps your church or its overseeing denomination would be able to assist financially.
If you conduct your school on church property, you may have to get some kind of permission from the town council to allow it. The Mohammedans do this with their madrassas throughout the world, including Commonwealth nations and the Dominion of Canada. Why should Christians be excluded?
Thank you, friend. You were not confrontational at all, I wished not to insult you in the slightest, hence the disclaimer before asking for information. Pushing for homeschooling is a difficult task!
We MIGHT be able to do something with this. A lot of us older ones are not terribly happy with state education, but the time thing is the killer since nearly all of us still work. If we can share it out, it is doable. Difficult, yes, but anything really worthwhile is!
I will have a read of the links, contact them and bring it up at our next informal meeting to see what people say.
Most will say yes.
Once more, my thanks for you taking the time to help us out!