Police said the girl reported that Duggar allegedly touched her inappropriately during a family vacation in Panama City Beach in 2020, when she was 9 years old.
I’m an American immigrant in Germany and the idea that homeschooling is illegal here really used to chafe at me. I get it now though: not everyone who wants to homeschool their kids also wants to make sure no mandatory reporters see evidence of their horrific child abuse, but everyone who wants to make sure no mandatory reporters see evidence of their horrific child abuse also wants to homeschool their kids.
Other interventions for that are either not thorough enough (biannual social worker visits), or much greater an imposition on the parents and way too expensive (biweekly social worker visits). It’s simplest to just make school compulsory, and it values the privacy of the parents over their control of their children. In some small percentage of cases, kids lose out on learning exclusively from very knowledgeable people, but parents can still educate their children outside of school, and way more kids are saved from damaging environments because of compulsory schooling.
Honestly, if I thought most homeschooled kids were “learning … from very knowledgeable people” I might find it less disturbing, but the reality is most of them are learning from religious zealots, conspiracy theorists, or other fruitloops who think going to a proper school will make them catch the gay. It creates a self-perpetuating underclass, and the parents should be locked up for child abuse long before the diddling starts.
I’m an American immigrant in Germany and the idea that homeschooling is illegal here really used to chafe at me. I get it now though: not everyone who wants to homeschool their kids also wants to make sure no mandatory reporters see evidence of their horrific child abuse, but everyone who wants to make sure no mandatory reporters see evidence of their horrific child abuse also wants to homeschool their kids.
Other interventions for that are either not thorough enough (biannual social worker visits), or much greater an imposition on the parents and way too expensive (biweekly social worker visits). It’s simplest to just make school compulsory, and it values the privacy of the parents over their control of their children. In some small percentage of cases, kids lose out on learning exclusively from very knowledgeable people, but parents can still educate their children outside of school, and way more kids are saved from damaging environments because of compulsory schooling.
Honestly, if I thought most homeschooled kids were “learning … from very knowledgeable people” I might find it less disturbing, but the reality is most of them are learning from religious zealots, conspiracy theorists, or other fruitloops who think going to a proper school will make them catch the gay. It creates a self-perpetuating underclass, and the parents should be locked up for child abuse long before the diddling starts.