Anonymous
10/03/2025 17:12
Subject: Help us choose a south or Central American town for a 1 year sabbatical with a kid
I haven’t read all the answers but the mountainous part of Ecuador is on the US school schedule.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 17:05
Subject: Re:Help us choose a south or Central American town for a 1 year sabbatical with a kid
I think you may need to be ok with a city in order to get the critical mass needed for your school requirements.
Guanajuato?
Guanajuato?
Anonymous
10/03/2025 16:20
Subject: Help us choose a south or Central American town for a 1 year sabbatical with a kid
OP here. Thanks for all of these suggestions! To answer some questions:
Why private: My sabbatical is for the North American school year. I don't want my kid to start in the middle of the S. American school year with a long break in Jan/Feb, but I know from our last experience in South America that many private schools operate on the North American calendar. You're right that many of those schools are bilingual, as opposed to immersive and that the ration of locals to expats isn't ideal....but we're boxed in by my schedule. That said I know that there are immersive schools and schools that serve mostly locals on the north american calendar (Cuenca has many of these, but we're hoping to avoid a city. I love Cuenca, so it's a back up plan...though I'd love to be somewhere a bit more remote and somewhere I haven't spent time in already. I think the main thing we'll give up with a private is economic diversity (lots of rich South Americans want to send their kids to "American style" schools, even with most instruction in Spanish.
Age of my kid: She'll be 11 when we travel.
Why private: My sabbatical is for the North American school year. I don't want my kid to start in the middle of the S. American school year with a long break in Jan/Feb, but I know from our last experience in South America that many private schools operate on the North American calendar. You're right that many of those schools are bilingual, as opposed to immersive and that the ration of locals to expats isn't ideal....but we're boxed in by my schedule. That said I know that there are immersive schools and schools that serve mostly locals on the north american calendar (Cuenca has many of these, but we're hoping to avoid a city. I love Cuenca, so it's a back up plan...though I'd love to be somewhere a bit more remote and somewhere I haven't spent time in already. I think the main thing we'll give up with a private is economic diversity (lots of rich South Americans want to send their kids to "American style" schools, even with most instruction in Spanish.
Age of my kid: She'll be 11 when we travel.
Anonymous
10/03/2025 13:48
Subject: Help us choose a south or Central American town for a 1 year sabbatical with a kid
Anonymous wrote:What do you not understand about where the US is right now?
You are an idiot thinking this will be easy right now
Not sure what this means. This seems like an ideal time to get away from the US and explore another culture. Will people shake their heads at US Politics? Of course. They would do the same here.