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To: i-node who wrote (63361)3/29/2018 3:26:36 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 362855
 
You want to take credit for the rare and spectacular contest winnings of home schooled children- you also need to take credit for the spectacular failures- of which there are many.

And bringing up your bugaboo of teacher's unions will appeal to no one but other Trump Humpers. I get that you'd like to bring up some odd distractor- because the abuse factor is really bad for your argument. I am not against home schooling, since I did it myself- which is also bad for your argument, but there are a lot of idiots in America who are too stupid to home school. So there should be standards- because otherwise a child's whole life could be changed for the worse. And since home schooling is such a great place for abusers to hide, there needs to be oversight.

If we reason by anecdote, I'd suggest the parents I met in home schooling who were nutcases beat your anecdote about your relative.

Let me give you some stats:

latimes.com

Particularly severe abuse cases that involve school-age children also tend to involve homeschooling. In a 2014 study of child torture, Barbara Knox, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin, found that 47% of school-age victims had been withdrawn from school for homeschooling and an additional 29% had never been enrolled.

We keep a database of homeschool abuse cases and have found disturbing details repeated over and over. More than 40% of severe and fatal cases involve some form of imprisonment. The Turpin children were found chained to their beds. So was Calista Springer, a 13-year-old Michigan girl who died in a house fire in 2009 when she was unable to free herself. Christian Choate of Indiana was kept naked in a cage; he died in 2009, at age 13, but his death was not discovered until two years later. In Arizona, a 14-year-old girl was locked in a bedroom for more than a year and routinely raped by her father; she escaped by kicking down the door when the rest of the family was away and running two miles across town to the home of a friend from when she attended school.

In Ohio, a couple forced their 11 adopted special needs children to sleep in cages. As with the Turpins, those parents told investigators they believed they had done nothing wrong. Two sisters in Florida were locked in makeshift cages and whipped with leather straps. In nearby Georgia, Mitch Comer spent four years locked in a bedroom in his family's home. When he turned 18, his parents put him on a bus to Los Angeles with pamphlets for homeless shelters.