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Originally posted by Judith F.:
By the way, I found your website on a Google search for an Indian recipe over a year ago, well before I signed on to ExpatsinItaly, and just now realized you are one and the same!

Wow, small web world! What are the odds, given how many billions of web pages are out there?

Well as my buddy Susan says: il mondo è una caccola e il web è una caccola ancora più piccola (the world is a tini piece of snot, and the web is an even tinier one).

Hi Alice,

Curiousity department: what would ever possess you to write the above post?

Paranoid & Slightly Over Sensitive Department: If the world is a tiny piece of snot does that mean that you're saying I'm something less than snot?

No, no. You would not be less than snot, just a tiny, tiny snot particle.

I believe that you are probably doing the home schooling under some sort of regulation from your home state. At least in California that's the way it works, the parents must submit forms, tests, etc to the state every year. So I believe that if you tell the locals in Italy that you are schooling your children through a US regulated schooling program they probably will be satisfied. It would be similar to sending them to one of the foreign private schools. And after all the law is intended to make sure kids are in school.

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Originally posted by mani doro:
No, no. You would not be less than snot, just a tiny, tiny snot particle.

Thanks Mani! You've put my mind at rest. That's one more rung up my proverbial social ladder then

After doing some research, I found out that unless one of the childrens parents is Italian, then it is ok to homeschool. If you are not an Italian Citizen there is little much the Italian law can do.