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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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