Before buying books or opening accounts for your child, one legal question has to be answered: in Vietnam general education is compulsory, and homeschooling has no separate legal framework. That does not mean it cannot be done — it means there is no procedure named "homeschool" for you to file. The route families actually take is affiliation with a private school, an international school, or a foreign programme.
Three things to do before the first lesson
- Ask the provincial Department of Education (Sở GD&ĐT) where you live directly: does this area accept home study / affiliation, and what paperwork is required. That answer is the only authoritative one — not this article.
- If you follow a foreign framework, check the rules in that country: HSLDA for the US, gov.uk for the UK. That framework applies when you register in that country, not when you live in Vietnam.
- Build the minimum record from week one: a weekly log, tests, a grade sheet. This is exactly the data a management tool like the hub in this series produces — a weekly log is not bureaucracy, it is your evidence that teaching happened if anyone asks.
One boundary worth stating: a lesson-planning tool is a management tool, not a recognised educational institution. It does not issue diplomas or certificates. Use it to organise teaching, not to replace the legal standing of the schooling itself.
The week: generate on Monday, teach Tue–Fri, adjust Sunday
Once the legal frame is settled, the remaining problem is keeping momentum. This weekly rhythm moves planning work to the start of the week, so midweek is only teaching:
- Monday morning: generate the week's lesson plan, per child, before the week starts.
- Monday afternoon: download the week's printable / PDF material.
- Tuesday–Friday: teach 3 sessions per subject, 30–45 minutes each.
- Friday: 15 minutes for the child to retell the week and write 3 lines.
- Sunday: mark the work and note what next week needs to adjust.
The default of 3 sessions per subject per week is a deliberate number: enough to keep momentum, not enough to burn out. With 3 subjects chosen, a week is 9 sessions — not 3 subjects × 5 days. That 9 is a fixed output of the lesson generator, not a target to chase.
Who writes the lessons — decide before hiring a tutor
One point that becomes a dispute later: the framework is written by the system, and the tutor only teaches and gives feedback, without changing the programme. Settle this in writing before the first session, because left open, every tutor will teach a different programme and the child's grade sheet stops being comparable week to week.
The rest of the series: choosing and training tutors, the 30-source international library, data, privacy and backup.