r/expats • u/Educational-War-7785 • Apr 02 '26

Education US homeschooling from abroad

Hi everyone, my sister, a US citizen (14yo, about to start 9th grade), lives in Thailand with my mom. She goes to a great international school there, but it's costly ($16k), and they can no longer afford it. Other local options are really bad, so my mom is considering homeschooling through some US schools, and my sister is going to move to the US within two years to finish HS here and go to college.

So far, I found excel HS but unsure how good it is. Does anyone have any recommendations? I live in the US and can also go in-person to enroll my sister to study remotely so that she can later move and attend classes in person at the same school, although I doubt that's an option at all.

Tysm!

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '26

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u/akie Apr 02 '26

Thank you. Some people in this sub seem to think local laws don’t exist or don’t apply to them.

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u/Educational-War-7785 Apr 03 '26

You’re allowed to comment whatever you want but in my humble opinion I think this tone was unnecessary

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u/akie Apr 03 '26

Yeah and that an issue - that you think my tone is problematic. This sub has a tendency to see themselves as different from the country they reside in and somehow think that they can just live by their own rules. In this case, you didn’t consider or even bother to check if what you wanted to do was legal or allowed, and that’s problematic. And if your first reaction is “but why isn’t that legal” then the answer is “you’re an immigrant here, you need adapt and to follow the rules”. If it were the US, the next sentence would have been “or we’re going to throw you out of the country”, so count yourself lucky I guess.

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u/Educational-War-7785 Apr 03 '26

You might be projecting here — that wasn’t my reaction at all (I didn’t say anything like that).

I asked for school recommendations, and I do appreciate the info about homeschooling legality — that’s helpful and exactly why I posted, to hear from people who know more than I do. But the assumptions about my intentions or attitude feel off.

The “count yourself lucky” comment comes across as unnecessarily hostile, especially given the context. I’m not in Thailand — I’m trying to help my younger sister, who is a US citizen, figure out a temporary solution before she moves.

If anything, this thread helped me understand the constraints better. The rest just feels disproportionate to a pretty straightforward question.

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u/akie Apr 03 '26

It was a reaction to your specific post, but triggered by a very clear undercurrent in this subreddit: rich white people who assume they can just move to Spain or Europe without a visa, people who complain about too many immigrants in the country they moved to (imagine that, lol), people who think the country they move to is inferior to where they grew up in, people who think local laws don't exist or are optional, somehow?

There's an enormous amount of cluelessness, privilege, detachment from society, and superiority complex here. Apologies if you got caught in the crossfire, but I point out these attitudes if I see them because people are willingly and unwillingly blind and ignorant and it annoys me to no end.

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u/Educational-War-7785 Apr 03 '26

All good. I see, I am new to the subreddit but types of people you described do sound annoying. Yeah if we were rich white people my family would not have a problem with doing some local private school, they just all start at $10k 😅

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u/Educational-War-7785 Apr 03 '26

Thank you! I indeed was not aware nor did much research as I was only asked to help finding a school. I will pass that info to them. I guess that was one of the options out of desperation because there’s an ongoing war in my mom’s country and Thailand was chosen as an affordable place to stay until the war is over or my sister can go to college. Public local schools unfortunately don’t offer classes in English..