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A Friendly Case For Oversight

Quality education is critical to children’s future wellbeing - including homeschooled kids!Children homeschooled responsibly grow up to succeed.

Children homeschooled irresponsibly face challenges.

What is irresponsible homeschooling? Some kids are educationally neglected, others are isolated and abused.

Many states don't provide accountability for homeschooling, so kids fall through the cracks.

Current homeschooling laws offer little accountability 11 states: No notice of homeschooling 14 states: No required subjects 25 states: No academic assessments 39 states: No educational requirements for homeschooling parents 48 states: No protections for at-risk homeschooled children This needs to change

The Coalition for Responsible Home Education was founded by homeschool alumni to work toward a world where all homeschooled children have access to a good education in a safe home environment

why #homeschoolkids? Homeschooled children don’t have a teacher to notice bruises or other signs of abuse Mistreated homeschooled children have no escape from their abuse Abused homeschooled children may not know that what they are experiencing is not normal They may not have an adult they can trust to help

Abusive parents who homeschool can deprive their children of food without a teacher noticing Parents who homeschool are not required to take their children to the doctor Educational neglect often goes unnoticed and uncorrected Homeschool parents have complete control over their children’s academic documents

Sometimes abusive parents homeschool solely to hide their abuse. They may start homeschooling after a teacher calls social services, in order to make sure they won’t be caught or reported again.

Abused homeschool alumni who attended school at some point have told us that the abuse they suffered was worse when they were homeschooled, because their parents knew no one would notice.

We document severe cases of abuse and neglect in our Homeschooling’s Invisible Children database

Calista Springer, Hana Williams, Miranda Crockett, Christian Choate, Christina Glenn

Homeschool alumni who were abused or neglected are starting to speak up "My parents gave up teaching me basic algebra." ~ Jerusha "I almost always felt afraid of my parents." ~ Megan "Mom was too busy with all my younger siblings to really pay attention to me or my schoolwork." ~ Teresa “Our home and home education became a stifling and controlling thing.” ~ Jane

“Not only do I not have a diploma, I don’t have any records of anything about my homeschooling.” ~ Sierra “I was invisible and worthless." ~ Lana

We can fix this! Here are some ideas we’ve come up with:

A system to flag at-risk children based on troubling histories of social services involvement Record keeping requirements to ensure that homeschooled students have evidence of their education Annual academic assessments via either standardized test or portfolio review, conducted by a mandatory reporter

How can you help?

Spread the word! Support the homeschooled kids in your life, Write a testimonial for CRHE, Support CRHE with a donation, Become a CRHE volunteer

We can make homeschooling better together.

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