{"id":3144,"date":"2004-06-29T06:03:26","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T06:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2004-06-29T06:03:26","modified_gmt":"2004-06-29T06:03:26","slug":"collingswood-south-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=3144","title":{"rendered":"“COLLINGSWOOD” SOUTH UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a bit more about the Florida starvation case<\/a>. Homeschooling appears like it will be on trial, too.<\/p>\n

[Barbara Bennett-Woodhouse, director of the Center on Children and Families at the University of Florida’s Frederick G. Levin College of Law] said she’s written about the aspect of home schooling as it relates to child abuse cases and thinks it is a dangerous precedent. It’s not that home schooling is bad, she said, it’s just that abuse is easier to hide in those situations.
\nShe has written papers on a number of court cases where children are taken out of school because they are, in fact, abused.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, y’all, we have a problem. At the very least, it’s a PR nightmare that these cases crop up on a regular basis. At worst, the bureaucrats may be correct that homeschooling “enables” those predisposed to abuse their kids to hide it (for a while, at least). Either way, I think the homeschooling community is going to have to do something<\/i>. Otherwise, we may see continued legislative calls for increased regulation. Those are battles we can certainly win. I’d just rather not have to fight them at all.<\/p>\n

Of course, saying the community may need to respond is a whole lot easier than coming up with a rational response. We certainly don’t want (and won’t stand for) nanny-state educrats looking over our shoulders at every turn in an effort to “Gotcha!” us. Likewise, NJ’s idea for mandatory health “inspections” (i.e., annual physicals with results reported to the state) is right out.<\/p>\n

Ideas?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: I’ve corrected the typo in the title. Thanks, Tim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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