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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 591383" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Oh dear, there's the thing... Not to bore you all with it further, but it is clear to me that for J to grow up in Morocco is best, now that he has his British nationality (ironical I know....) However, this is the rub, a little bit. There is one Montessori school in Morocco, in Casablanca, opening next year for the primary section, ie 2014, and extremely expensive. There is another, a different kind of thing set up in the mountains by a German woman and her Moroccan husband that uses experimental methods but is for the local Berber children. I've had a longish conversation with my ex-husband about it and he is adamant he doesn't want Jacob to go there, for various reasons. No, he can't stop me, legally or anything, but if I want J to have a full relationship with his dad, I have to take his dad's views into account. </p><p>This leaves... Marrakech where I'd like to be based as it's where all my friends and contacts are. There is a prestigious Moroccan private school, very academic and high-achieving but quite interesting and wide in its outlook, where he would be in a class of 32 and obviously totally in the deep end re Arabic, though he would learn quickly. Like all the Moroccan private schools, it teaches half in Arabic, half in French and also concentrates on English. If he were neuro-typical and academic, this is the school I'd choose for him. As it is? Otherwise there is the French school, exactly like a school in France, which I don't really want but where he'd have more chance of learning disabilities being recognised and catered for. Then there are a couple of very small outfits, tiny schools set up by French ex-teachers who work with the French national programme. That could be a solution but the one I preferred has just closed its primary unit and the other the woman didn't impress me greatly for various reasons - we had a LONG conversation on the phone. Finally, there is one woman who sounds great, and more experimental in her methods, some way out of Marrakech in the countryside and I've also spoken to her on the phone... but, alas, she has no space for more children. She did say if she could find a suitable premises, she would enlarge the school...</p><p>So that's it! I'm a bit stuck really. Groan, what's new! Of course I could find a better school for him in Europe but that's not best for him overall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 591383, member: 11227"] Oh dear, there's the thing... Not to bore you all with it further, but it is clear to me that for J to grow up in Morocco is best, now that he has his British nationality (ironical I know....) However, this is the rub, a little bit. There is one Montessori school in Morocco, in Casablanca, opening next year for the primary section, ie 2014, and extremely expensive. There is another, a different kind of thing set up in the mountains by a German woman and her Moroccan husband that uses experimental methods but is for the local Berber children. I've had a longish conversation with my ex-husband about it and he is adamant he doesn't want Jacob to go there, for various reasons. No, he can't stop me, legally or anything, but if I want J to have a full relationship with his dad, I have to take his dad's views into account. This leaves... Marrakech where I'd like to be based as it's where all my friends and contacts are. There is a prestigious Moroccan private school, very academic and high-achieving but quite interesting and wide in its outlook, where he would be in a class of 32 and obviously totally in the deep end re Arabic, though he would learn quickly. Like all the Moroccan private schools, it teaches half in Arabic, half in French and also concentrates on English. If he were neuro-typical and academic, this is the school I'd choose for him. As it is? Otherwise there is the French school, exactly like a school in France, which I don't really want but where he'd have more chance of learning disabilities being recognised and catered for. Then there are a couple of very small outfits, tiny schools set up by French ex-teachers who work with the French national programme. That could be a solution but the one I preferred has just closed its primary unit and the other the woman didn't impress me greatly for various reasons - we had a LONG conversation on the phone. Finally, there is one woman who sounds great, and more experimental in her methods, some way out of Marrakech in the countryside and I've also spoken to her on the phone... but, alas, she has no space for more children. She did say if she could find a suitable premises, she would enlarge the school... So that's it! I'm a bit stuck really. Groan, what's new! Of course I could find a better school for him in Europe but that's not best for him overall. [/QUOTE]
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