[nvahalik]

> The lack of regulation is concerning.

You should go talk to some teachers at large school districts. "Regulation" can be both a blessing and a curse. There is plenty of bullying, drug use, etc. at large schools where nobody wants to deal with it.

[millzlane]

But at least at large schools a kid has an opportunity to snitch on their abusers. Or there is someone there to spot the signs.

[teitoklien]

Those kids can snitch to much more competent people who are well trained and respond more quickly than schools which are notorious for suspending children who stand up to their bullies or call the police on kids just because they got into a little fight.

It’s called calling 911 and calling CPS, or going to your nearest healthcare place.

There are tons of ways, to checkup on kids, even just a annual mandatory children checkup is enough, or neighbours keeping an eye out and reporting issues.

School neglect is often the very thing that lead children to failures, abuse from their peers, suicidal thoughts, gun violence, you name it.

Not sure if modern schools are the messiah.

I’m anti homeschool tho, i think parents are mostly incompetent at raising kids well, and if their children do not pass certain academic exams at grade 2,5 and 7 then they should be banned from homeschooling, an entire nation’s future depends on it.

Schools should also be less politicised, all this lgbtq , critical race theory, math is racist, etc should be removed from schools, I understand it’s meaningful in some ways and well intentioned, that children learn their history, that kids learn to be more tolerant of others, but these are all values that their parents should teach them, not schools.

Gutting out of advanced classes from school because too many white and asian kids got into it, instead of trying to improve outcomes for black and hispanic children, they just destroyed the advanced classes in major schools, and worsened the outcomes for EVERYBODY (I meant kids of masses, rich folks and politicians kids will still get top tier education at private school)

Schools != Parents Too many schools tried to become the parent

Now parents are starting to remove schools altogether. This will be bad for everyone in this country, but it was schools and government who started this mess in the first place.

Now they just wanna blame parents.

[nvahalik]

> This will be bad for everyone in this country

Whole heartedly disagree. It will be very good for some people and for others it will not be good.

We have been homeschooling for the last 8 years. Our kids are more mature and far exceed anything public school would have done for them. However, we see home schooling as a vocation and something we have to put effort into—not just something we sign up for on a website and then let our kid do all the work online.

Given the right reasons, homeschool will always be superior because the student/teacher ratio is so low. Plus you know your kids better and can adapt to their needs.

Given the wrong reasons, sure, it will fail people. But arguably those folks are already failing—and being propped up by a system which tries to support them but ultimately cannot.

[no_wizard]

>It’s called calling 911 and calling CPS, or going to your nearest healthcare place.

Who is suppose to do this exactly? If you're raised in an abusive household, it is not entirely likely you are aware you can do these things, or even if you are there is alot of fear and psychological manipulation to overcome in situations of abuse. With no outside party to intervene, it is extremely difficult for abuse to be overcome.

This is why, for example in California (and other states that have this law), if a there is a domestic dispute call, it is mandatory by law that the police separate the people involved for at least 24, even if the victim does not press charges at that time. This gives room for a victim to stand up for themselves once the threat has been removed. Not perfect by any means, but this has saved countless lives and improved countless others.

With children, an even more vulnerable population, removing them out of public school with no recourse for checking in with that child in a safe setting, you will exacerbate child abuse further than it already exists. I think the trade off of home school being that there is child safety checks routinely built in over the school age of the child, would be something parents could weigh as a trade off.

[rayiner]

Also gang recruitment: https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/baltimore-co-police-warn...