There's so much wrong even with the first sentence that it's hard to know where to begin.
Who defines abuse?
Don't they consider it abuse to rip a child from the only family he's ever known and make him go live with a bunch of strangers?
Who's going to *protect* the kids from abuse at the hands of the public school system? From foster families?
What about families who send their kids to the public school system who abuse their kids? And there's lots of them.
Who made this judge God?
It's a self-appointment.
I agree but I blame the idiot reporter's anti- homeschool bias for the outrageous statement and not the Judge who said no such thing.
The Judge objected to the fact that the child was never tested.
In fact, he says, he just might name a school district in his state as a defendant in a current court dispute, citing the district's "shocking" failure to monitor and test all students – including homeschoolers.
In Washington State, all we needed to homeschool was to notify the local school district that we wanted to homeschool and provide a copy of a yearly test from a recognized testing agency. We used the Stanford Achievement Test.
Not even bothering to test the child allowed these parent to not homeschool at all and treat the child like an animal. That was abuse.
A child in New Jersey, who recently was found unfed and locked in a putrid bedroom was allegedly 'homeschooled'.....
These parents were not HOMEschoolers.
These parents were NOschoolers. They were also NOfooders.
Yearly testing by means of a nationally recognized private achievement test protects not only the child but the reputation of those of us that have homeschooled successfully.
Not testing at all allows child abusing sickos to simply claim to be legitimate homeschoolers, teach their kids absolutely nothing and even lock them up without food in a filthy room as these sickos did to this child without anybody finding out about it.