Both homeschooled and publicly schooled children can have it bad at home no matter the place they receive their education.
A parent can abuse their publicly schooled child just the same as they could their homeschooled child. They can also kill their child regardless of where their child receives their education. And when children who are not homeschooled are killed, kill another, or are abused by a parent, why does the reporter not expand upon what school they went to, what curriculum was used, who oversaw their schooldays, and what they ate for lunch at school?
When you report on such a topic such as homeschool and try to relate it to abuse, you confuse the subjects. A child's education does not cause his or her parent to harm them. This is a situation due to their homelife. A publicly schooled child may be abused for years without anyone ever knowing about it. A publicly schooled child may be mentally and physically abused at school without anyone ever knowing about it. My daughter being the example to this.
Please do not give rank of one abuse over another. Or of one teacher over another. Please consider the overall subject of parents abusing their children to be a totally different report from parents who homeschool their children. Education and abuse are conflicting, not relative.
I would like to pose the questions:
How do you oversee the homelife of ALL families, homeschooled and publicly schooled, in efforts to keep the children safe? For it isn't the place of education that changes the lifestyle at home. And what do you do with parents of publicly schooled children who maintain social isolation for their children when their children come home from school each day due to religion or other beliefs? Do you accuse them of malreating their children? And if the government put a plan into action that regulated the homeschools, do you think it could be done without regulating choice of curriculum, belief, and social aspects? I would never want my child subjected to the "socialization" she was subjected to in public school EVER again. Kids teaching kids such horrible things is not my idea of socialization though it is sought after by so many parents.
And finally, the family that was part of the report tonight should have been a subject of a debate regarding the NRA or the CPS. Can you give statistics on abuse and death of homeschooled children vs. publicly schooled children over the years? Remember, public school is a very new concept when comparing with homeschool.
~ Cari
