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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most homeschoolers are fine, but....it is just too darn easy for parents who abuse their kids to "home school" them. Remember this case? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/house-horrors-case-turpin-parents-sentenced-life-prison-torturing-children-n996326  The father set up a "school" and filed the necessary paperwork. One kid was allowed to go to community college classes, but his mother always went with him.

Now, I KNOW this is an outlier. But when kids go to school, teachers and others can see signs of abuse and report them. Of course, child protective services doesn't  always do a great job either. Still, a lot of those who abuse their children do claim to "homeschool" them.

I suspect a lot of the "new" homeschoolers are kids whose parents want to protect them from covid. I have serious doubts that all of them are going to be adequately taught. Parents just think "I'm not going to risk my child's life" or "I cannot risk that my children bring something home to grandma and I need grandma to watch them while I work, so they can't go to school." Then, they register to "homeschool" them, but the amount of instruction time they get is negligible. That's especially true if grandparents are watching the kids during the day while mom is at work.

I don't think the parents are negligent--far from it. They love their kids. They just don't want them in school right now.[/quote]

In ES, before covid, we had to heavily supplement as very little was taught.  Most of the teaching came from home, not school.  Covid is serious and a good reason to homeschool.[/quote]

Most MCPS schools are fine but it’s too damn easy to have sexual predators prey with leadership repeatedly covering up their crimes.  There, I fixed it for you...On the curriculum front - government schools due a much better job of educating until they don’t: Curriculum 2.0 was a travesty they kept inflicting on our kids for nearly a decade when they knew it was a disaster.  MCPS still is a travesty for dyslexic kids.  We homeschooled for three years and met tons of smart dedicated families.  [/quote]

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