Posted on 07/10/2024 6:06:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Most abusive parents start out with babies and toddlers. Notice the authors aren't calling for background checks before school age.
In pretty much every "homeschooling-child abuse" case I've ever read, the children were failed by everyone - CPS, law enforcement, the court system, and their school.
For example, the authors mention this horrific case:
-"In 2020 an 11-year-old boy in Michigan was found dead after his stepmother used homeschooling to conceal years of torture."-
What the authors don't mention is that the boy's biological mother tried fighting in court to see her son, but the father kept moving; that the father of the stepmother's biological children fought for custody for years; and that, in 2016, the stepmother's own sister called CPS multiple times about the boy, but no action was ever taken, even though he was still in school at that time.
-"A small study of children who had been seriously abused found that eight of 17 school-age victims were ostensibly being homeschooled."-
The authors link to a study. WARNING - don't look at it! It's horrible. But, that study says the 8 "homeschooled" children started out IN SCHOOL and were removed "typically after closure of a CPS case." Again, CPS failed them.
The other 9 of the 17 were school students. In one case, the adoptive mother told the school the children had a life-threatening condition that required restriction from food and water, and CPS even bought her a lock to keep the children from food and water. WTH?
And 17...? ONE teacher in ONE local school was arrested for molesting the same number of children. A single pervert in one school has access to everyone's children.
I once called CPS on a family because the parents were drug dealers, the kids ran the street late at night, and the stepmother was seen punching one kid. You know what CPS told me? Nothing they could do, unless the kids were literally starving, beaten severely, or not going to school. But, those kids were in school. Mine weren't.
It has been obvious for at least 25 years that DoEd is a massive failure and needs to be done away with.
If a government schooled kid is failing should his parents be forced to homeschool? ( Just wondering.) /s
If a government schooled kid is failing should his parents be forced to homeschool? ( Just wondering.) /s
Kids aren't students.
They are just the grist for Deep State's diploma mills.
“Uniform”?
As in Lets make homeschooled kids as stupid and brainwashed as the kids we teach?
And they are able to get along with people in many different age ranges - something that public school kids have a tough time with because they are forced to primarily associate with other kids their own ages.
Because uniform standards work so well now in government schools!
We do have uniform standards - everyone knows the homeschool uniform is pajamas.
Agreed: “Standards” are most likely an attempt to incrementally control the curriculum, and encroach on parental rights.
I am opposed to these “standards”, even if that means a few kids don’t get good schooling. (And Public school would probably be worse anyway.)
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Also, “science” actually changes. There are hardly any respected specialists today that believe Charles Darwin’s _original_ theory, unmodified.
So why prescribe “correct” ideas instead of letting ideas compete?
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Agreed.
(But there will always be a rare few bad cases somewhere that will be held up as reasons for “standards” and government control.)
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There is a high school right down the road from where I live with a state-of-art facility. They publish a happy bulletin with fantastic smiling programs--but their "graduates' fall short of state standards. 50% below basic state math standards. Like the rest of the nation, half of them can't read.
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