Never let a good crisis go to waste.
If they were suspecting child abuse while he was in the public schools, then it’s THEIR responsibility that he died.
They already had enough to go on and do not have to regulate homeschooling to ensure that stuff like this happens.
What do they think? That public school kids are never beaten to death by the mother’s boyfriend because they’re in public schools and are able to be watched?
I knew growing up, and had the shame to be related to, a family who turned out to be abusing their children in all sorts of horrifying ways. The kids are completely screwed up now. Yes, they were “homeschoolers”. We lived in PA, which has the strictest laws in the country and there were social workers in and out of that home all the time, one of the children was taken away, but the others were still left to suffer.
Was homeschooling to blame? No! Was it “lax government oversight”? The social workers were right there. Maybe they were lazy. Maybe they were fooled. But I can’t see what laws would have prevented it.
As for me, do not EVER try to act like you get the grant me permission to raise my daughter. I have guns for a lot of reasons.
But, now that the father and family is behind a bill to subject all homeschooling families to suspicion and interrogation by the state, they shouldn't mind answering a few questions, such as:
Why didn't Teddy's father see him for five years? He says the mother blocked his visits. For five years? Why didn't he get a court order for visitation?
Why didn't those in charge at the public school he attended do more to help this boy?
Why didn't neighbors, friends, family, even the police, and everyone who knew Teddy was being abused help him?
Innocent people should not be presumed to be possible child abusers because the state authorities, politicians, and family are looking for scapegoats.