![]() So this is the area where I’ll point out abuse. My sphere is the fundamentalist and conservative evangelical world, many of which are homeschoolers. Other people will talk about the abuses that go on in the Catholic church, or in Amish land, or in the Muslim world, and well they should, but that is not my sphere. I have listened to people talk about extreme sexual abuse in “Christian” homeschooling families, extreme physical abuse, and the extreme spiritual and psychological and emotional abuses that keep it all in place. This is in spite of the fact that I have heard many homeschool horror stories, not just online (there are scores of utterly sickening stories online), but face to face, sitting in my own living room, sitting in the coffee shop, sitting on the floor of someone else’s bedroom. ![]() I’m not anti-homeschooling I’m still very pro-homeschooling. Thanks to my 100% homeschooled son, who dropped out of college and is now a successful coder in Manhattan, it’s back up on a new server.įor those who think this post is a “homeschool bashing” post, I want to make it clear that I loved my 24 years of homeschooling all my children through all the grades, and would do it again (albeit with the changes that any sensible parent would make in hindsight). Note: This post went viral, so my blog shut down for about 15 hours. Be willing to step in and rescue the children. (These words are coming from a 24-year veteran of homeschooling.) Don’t just think everything is fine just because the family looks picture perfect. Don’t just defend homeschooling for the sake of homeschooling. Deputies located what they believed to be 12 children inside the house – but were shocked to discover that seven of them were actually adults, ranging in age from 18 to 29.
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