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Enrolling USA kids for a month in school

My family would like to visit Boquete for a month in October, but I am having a bit of trouble figuring out how to enroll my kids, ages 4, 6 and 8, in school for that amount of time. Public or private? Recommendations on how to do it? Thanks!

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  • Sorry meant AIB
    • Yeah AIB said they were full. I contacted El Pastor private school and I think they might take them. I’m going to get my friend to call them again to ask in Spanish. :)

  • About is predominantly Spanish, my kids didn't enjoy it at all and are now in the Oxford school in David. Not sure if they'd do a one month thing. Also the process to apply for school is long and very complicated as a previous comment states
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  • There is a faith based group of home schoolers in Plaza San Francisco which might accommodate you. 

    • They have been closed for over a year now.

    • Do you know someone I can email about the group? Thanks!

  • I seriously doubt that the public schools would accept students for that short length of time. Moreover, unless your children are fluent in Spanish, they would be unable to understand anything. The closest school to Boquete in which English is spoken is the International Academy Boquete, located 20 to 25 minutes south of Boquete on the road to David. Its website is http://www.aib.edu.pa/web/. I do not know if it accepts students for a term as short as one month.

    I don't understand what educational benefit you envision being derived from a one-month stay in a school in a foreign country, presumably with a curriculum completely different from that back home. I should think that the change would be wrenching for the children and not worth it for so short a period.

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    • Thanks for the info, Amanda! We travel a lot, and the kids have done it before (in English) and really enjoyed it. They even ask when they get to do it again.

      • You will need ALL school records, Immunization records.  A medical release from a doctor here. The documents from the US MUST be apostille.  Then have them all translated by only an official translator in this country.  Now take the translated documents to the Meduca.  They will take them, look them over and enroll them into which school they say is closest to you (public).  If you go to a private, we did, then you tell them which school you will go to.  This approval process with the MEDUCA is NOT quick.  Lots of trouble for one month.  Actually, we did this 6 years ago.  Trust me when I tell you that nothing gets easier...I would venture to say there are even more requirements this many years after.  I am not sure they will let you enroll them for only one month.

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