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Re:For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the ... by hattmall on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:00AM (#37279816)
No one that's going to the additional effort of finding and participating in this type of school is going to let their kid be a legitimate bully. That level of parental involvement is what's lacking from a bully's life.
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Re:For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the ... by masklinn on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:16AM (#37279896)
That is laughably naïve. Plenty of parents think their little angel can do no wrong and will at best ignore evidence to the contrary.
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Re:For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the ... by sibeliuss on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:41AM (#37280022)
While I do agree with you here, I do think the OP has a point. Homeschool parents are _involved_. Its a small, close community. Word gets around.
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Re:For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the ... by masklinn on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:14AM (#37280180)
> Its a small, close community. Word gets around.

That describes lots of communities where abuse is epidemic.

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Re:For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the ... by mftrhu on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:30AM (#37281290)
Small, close communities are communities where the bonds between each participant is much stronger, making it costlier - both in terms of immediately broken relationships, and of backlash from the rest of the group - for people to sever it.

Word gets around, but not necessarily from the right people, and - if bad outcomes are not guaranteed - there is nevertheless a strong incentive for it to fall on deaf ears, stronger than it would be in a less tight-knit community.

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