You're right. My friends who home school provide a much better education than the school system could ever offer - but I used to work with the juvenile court system and was horrified by some of the parents who claimed to "home school" their children. Not only was there no effort to supervise let alone educate their children in at least two cases I'm aware of the children were horribly neglected and/or abused and eventually removed from their homes.
This child wasn't home schooled but was no schooled. There is a big difference. The parents were caught too. How?
"Not only was there no effort to supervise let alone educate their children in at least two cases I'm aware of the children were horribly neglected and/or abused and eventually removed from their homes."
Were those the vast exception or the rule?
Seems like with Homeschool kids scoring in the 80th percentile on standardized tests it would be hard to cover up widespread abuse.