[hahn-kev]

If a kid is a bully then the parents organizing the group can kick that kid out (as a last resort). Additionally if a child is being bullied they can tell their parents and the parents can take action directly, this can happen publicly but there's a lot of layers of administration making it non-trivial.

In a way the group homeschool can be thought of like a small private school, it's just simpler to handle personal problems in a small group.

[masklinn]

> If a kid is a bully then the parents organizing the group can kick that kid out

Or they can approve of the bullying. Or they can do nothing because they don’t care, or because they’re socially subservient to the bully’s parents.

It’s simpler to handle personal problems in a small group, it’s also easier for them to fester in a closed group.

[chongli]

It’s not a closed group. You can pull your kid out and put them in a different group. It’s not like public school where your kid is forced to go to the one school in your catchment area.

The parents also have the option of reorganizing the group to kick the bully’s parents out, along with the bully.

[fatfingerd]

Private schools achieve that and have more ability to do so than homeschooling teacher as a service does.

This model isn't new and had problems before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capturing_the_Friedmans

[achates]

If I can find a news article about a public school teacher who molested children will you support shutting those down too?

[fatfingerd]

I think your article is less likely to have the investigation beginning with the post office and more likely to have affects of multiple regular people not being OK with something, and being present.

Such involved parents could never let anything happen arguments ignore how these things develop as less involved parents cargo cult. (You can't get much more blatant in a drop in actual involvement than the example in the article.)

These kinds of groups connecting themselves to actual home schooling will erode it by association.

[Jka9rhnDJos]

If I can find an article about a parent molesting a child, will you support sending them to public school?

[bavell]

1. What parent would approve of their kid getting bullied? What are you talking about?

2. If the parents care enough to homeschool, why would they not care about bullying?

3. Socially subservient to the bully's parents? This feels like a hopelessly contrived and niche edge case that is effectively meaningless because it would be so rare

4. I'm not convinced personal problems fester moreso in a closed group (see: armed forces), and further I'm not convinced homeschooling groups are closed in the first place

All this to say I don't think your argument has any merit and is based on convenient and unlikely hypotheticals.

[dgb23]

It’s not unlikely that the bully is a child from a parent who organizes the groups…