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[quote=Anonymous]I love homeschooling my kid but I was a little shocked at how easy it is to homeschool. We are in Virginia and all I had to do was show proof of my education, a list of subjects I plan on teaching (like just “math, science, language arts, PE” etc.), and he has to take a test and get over I think the 25th percentile. I’m pretty sure you can just take a test that doesn’t ever ask about civics or biology or history.

I don’t want somebody coming i to my house or anything but I think that any information that a student is required to learn in public school should also be a learning requirement for homeschool.

I don’t know what is to be done about the abuse situation. It’s horrendous, and I know that kids get a reprieve from abuse at school and teachers are often the ones to report, but how can restricting homeschool solve the issue? I think you’d have to ban homeschool completely, because if you interview a kid about abuse, an abused kid would probably just lie about it.

As far as isolation goes…yikes. I honestly hadn’t thought of long-term consequences of that. I would hate to have to join a homeschool group and I have my kid socialize with play dates and lots of extracurriculars. How could the government step in there?

Man some parents just suck. It’s so sad. [/quote]

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