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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by mcpackieh on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:15PM (#38103440)
Those same Pennsylvanian school teachers turn a blind eye to the abuse that happens right in front of them in their own classrooms. The law may require them to report abuse but it can't actually force them to; the teachers just pretend they didn't see anything and there is no penalty for this because how can you prove the teacher recognized something? It's a farce.
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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by vharuck on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:30PM (#38107817)
Do you have data to back your dismissal? Because when I looked, over 10,000 Pennsylvanian school employees reported suspected child abuse to the state in 2022 alone: https://www.dhs.pa.gov/docs/OCYF/Documents/2022-PA-CHILD-PRO...

The number of substantiated (court ruling, protective order, etc) child abuse cases in 2022: around 5,000.

No other group, including doctors, police officers, and Child Protective Services themselves, made more reports. Only around 6% of the school employees' reports were substantiated, making their reports least likely to be substantiated. This leads me to believe school employees have a lower threshold for reporting a suspicion compared to other groups.

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by mcpackieh on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:52PM (#38108000)
> over 10,000 Pennsylvanian school employees reported suspected child abuse to the state in 2022 alone

And they overlook 100x more students beating the shit out of each other. No, I won't cite it. I lived it, and I have relatives working in that system who say nothing has changed.

BTW there are more than 100k school teachers in Pennsylvania. 10k reports a year represents about 1 in 10 teachers making a single report a year. I retract my 100x remark, it's far worse than that.

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