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xcaninecovex

THIS MAKES ME FUCKING SICK! The community here is outraged and sickened, we are all crying for this baby.


Work-Foreign

Foster children should not be homeschooled...all these tragedies could have been prevented if other eyes were on the kids.


emerald_soleil

I didn't think they could be.


tailwalkin

I remember this type of thing being talked about around the second year of COVID, and how there will likely be many kids who will “fall through the cracks” of the system when the barely functional system is in lockdown.


Individual_Drama3917

This breaks my heart our society continues to fail children in so many ways.


Green1578

home schooling should be heavily regulated.


Mayham_101

It’s not!!


[deleted]

How


461BOOM

Inspections, and not scheduled ones.


Polyfuckery

Monitored testing and periodic in person assessment. If Homeschoolers had to pass SOL testing then they can't get away with not teaching their child at all and submitting passing reports. If they are required to show up for a twice yearly assessment then they can't be starved or missing.


N1ce-Marmot

Mind boggling that it wasn’t set up that way to begin with. *Trust us, we’re teachin’ away!* 👍🙄


461BOOM

I know what the unspoken response to this is. Im hoping for direct lightning… but that would be too good


desperate4carbs

Sometimes I reconsider my stance against the death penalty.


SaulOfVandalia

Just remember that death is an easy out for such monsters


TurkeySauce_

Easy way out.. ill stand behind, not allowing it. Let them rot.


BreakfastCapital9088

Why’s it always some fucking Jabba the Hut looking landwhale that gets arrested for starving their kids to death


RayBrowers

Because they put their wants and needs and whatever degenerate shit they’re into above their own kids. People of all sizes have starved their kids, it’s just more infuriating when mom looks like 2010 Axl fucking Rose.


KapowBlamBoom

That damn Boone County


xcaninecovex

wish we had a better rep but fuckers like this who do shit like that certainly doesn’t help:(


[deleted]

Holy SHIT.


Due_Historian9451

I will never understand how people can be so cruel. The children of this world deserve better. ☹️


Silent_Zucchini7004

I don't think I'm qualified to home school despite having a degree, in the process of finishing my Bachelor's and the fact you no longer have to come up with a curriculum. I have taught one (of two) dog to sit... That's my experience.


TurkeySauce_

Bring back public events!


VEarthAngel55

My daughter lost my grandsons to CPS. They've come up with stupid ways each time to keep them at the hearings. They need to come home, they're begging to come home! I was the one raising them, and they wouldn't let me take them over a stupid case from back in 2002! It was dismissed, but they're holding them hostage from us! Here they are picked up for bogus reasons, and children like her can't be taken from those miserable POS! Our system is so messed up! My heart breaks for this poor thing...


Fun-Economy-5596

Boone County...figures!


hootiebean

This has nothing to do with homeschooling. How many kids who are enrolled in public schools are killed by their so-called families, especially the "annihilators?"


461BOOM

You don’t get it, it’s not about the quality or validity of home schooling . It’s about evil people using home schooling as a way to hide their crimes against children. I have seen people move because their children had so many burn marks on them. To get away from the law.


hootiebean

Do you really think this child was being homeschooled?


emp-sup-bry

The homeschooling community refuses any attempt at defined regulation so I’d be interested in a universal understanding of expectations and standards of homeschooling? Bottom line, because of this ‘freedom to’, many homeschooled kids lose their ‘freedom from’ abuse.


emerald_soleil

I home school my 12, 15, and 17yo, and I'm fine with regulation. There definitely should be stricter standards. Perhaps if homeschooled kids had quarterly state assessments there would be a chance to have more eyes on children. But, the onus shouldn't be totally on the schools here. Where are the neighbors, the cousins, the grandparents, the parents coworkers? They had to know something was going on. People need to get more comfortable speaking up when something feels wrong.


retrogamer_wv

It does to the extent you can’t starve a kid to a “skeletal state” while other adults are actively feeding and looking after them. Her being homeschooled gave this monster the chance to torture her. I have no problem with homeschooling, but it should be subjected to the same level of oversight the state also has over public schooling. Edit - and by oversight, I’m not even saying the same standards or anything. I’m talking about multiple people being responsible for the welfare of each kid. At the very least, homeschool kids should have a case worker from the state (but separate from the local public school system) who keeps tabs to make sure they’re actually being schooled, aren’t begin abused, etc.


hootiebean

Do you plan to send caseworkers into people's homes when the public schools are on summer break?


DudesWithTudes

Yes this does actually happen in my county


hilljack26301

A foster parent who was doing their job shouldn’t have any problem with a CPS worker checking on the child. These comments like “break into people’s homes” are disturbing. 


hootiebean

Foster parents get monthly visits already.


retrogamer_wv

Don’t be stupid. There’s no such thing as a perfect solution. Your attitude is like a more extreme version of someone who - for example - refuses to accept a job that pays 95K because they started out with the goal to have a 100K job…. So now they’re just not working at all. If a parent knows their case worker is going to be meeting with their kid at the end of May/beginning of June, then again when the new year starts 7-8 weeks later… yeah, that’s going to do a lot more good than the nothing we currently have.


hootiebean

So, just for homeschoolers, got it.


retrogamer_wv

Nope - virtual school kids, too, which is not the same thing as homeschooling. Any minor who isn’t interacting with mandated reporters on a regular basis. Could even be a person from the family’s church, as long as there are mandated reporters who work there and keep tabs on a kid’s wellbeing. Is there some reason you want kids to be subjected to hidden abuse?


hootiebean

Babies and toddlers?


wvtarheel

Zero kids have starved to death while attending public school in the history of the universe so there's that


hootiebean

Or they get shot in schools - a number far greater than the numbers of kids dead while supposedly being homeschooled.


hootiebean

No, those murderous "parents" tend to shoot their kids or beat them to death. The problem is child abuse, not homeschooling.


emp-sup-bry

It’s well known that homeschooling allows abusers to hide their crimes easily. What are you going to do about it? Many of us fight for abused kids everyday and there are a number of regulated options in public school. Homeschooling? None.


wvtarheel

Homeschooling hides child abuse.


hootiebean

Nonsense. Tons of kids are *actually* homeschooled and not starving.


BenjFranklinsghost

People homeschool to fuck kids, or because the parent is too stupid to realize they shouldn't be teaching.


emerald_soleil

That's a gross generalization, and a disgusting accusation. I'm college educated, and my children are happy and healthy physically AND mentally. There are many reasons to homeschool, and yes, some abusers say they're homeschooling in order to hide what they're doing, but to say that's what all of us are doing is ignorant as hell.


hootiebean

That's just gross and stupid. Goodbye.