Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling

Re:Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @08:58PM (#23014073)

Hmm, plenty of people have an awful time in state schools. Parents who are so bad they leave their kids to do their own education sometimes inadvertently give them a great environment in which to grow (but it seems super-rare). I think you're more right on this second part than on the first.

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Re:Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling by bscphil on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:03PM (#23014101)

> plenty of people have an awful time in state schools

For sure, I'm not denying that, I'm just saying there's a difference between the possible outcome of having an awful time and being so socially abnormal that you get panicky talking to the cashier at the Burger King and can't make any friends.

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Re:Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling by gliese1337 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @12:40AM (#23015442)

In my experience, the worst possible outcomes in each case tip the other direction: I have never heard of a homeschool kid committing suicide because they were so unprepared for Burger King, but public school kids commit suicide because of how incredibly awful their social experience is all the time.

The absolute worst-case, most socially-awkward homeschooler I ever met ended up just fine after a couple of years of college, which fully made up for any socialization deficiencies he may have suffered from being isolated from his public school peers.

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Re:Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling by astura on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:39AM (#23020501)

https://hsinvisiblechildren.org

>Our preliminary research suggests that homeschooled children are at a greater risk of dying from child abuse than are traditionally schooled children.

https://coloradosun.com/2018/10/08/homeschool-child-abuse-co...

>In a 2014 study published in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, Knox seemed to confirm that. Examining cases of severe and fatal child abuse, Knox found that 47 percent of the young victims had been removed from school to be home schooled

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Re:Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling by ska on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:59PM (#23025567)

This is the sort of thing that is really subject to selection bias.

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Re:Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling by watwut on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:32AM (#23016817)

There were multiple sever abuse cases children in families where kids were homeschooled to cover abuse. It happens.

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