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I heard that a bigger number of child abuse victims are going to regular schools, and some abuse in fact is happening inside those schools. There goes your argu

I heard that a bigger number of child abuse victims are going to regular schools, and some abuse in fact is happening inside those schools. There goes your argument.

maus42 10y ago
>a bigger number Well, there's an order of magnitude or two children going to regular schools... One needs a bit more statistics to back or disprove any argument.
throwaway729 10y ago
> bigger number of child abuse victims are going to regular schools That's an extraordinarily useless piece of data -- there are at least a couple orders of magnitude more students in schools than home schooled. > and some abuse in fact is happening inside those schools This is rare enough that it's not a rational reason to avoid schools.
rabboRubble 10y ago
Teachers and principals are mandated reporters. When they observe abuse of a student they are mandated by law to report it. Homeschooling parents are not. Furthermore, I didn't have an argument. Homeschooling seems dubious to me. As a homeschooled kid, if you win the genetics lottery to have educated non-lunatic non-abusive parents capable of teaching the entire spectrum of knowledge areas, it might work out really well. God help the kid chained to a bed at home being homeschooled without anybody knowing the child's plight. God help the kid whose parents can barely manage the mathematics required to keep a checking account balanced. God help the kid who has a medical condition like autism that the parent is incapable of addressing.