by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Public schools, Research
Rodger Williams June 12, 2025 Most people assume that public schools protect students because the schools’ mandatory reporters contact Child Protective Services (CPS) about suspected child abuse. That assumption is wrong. Federal child abuse data displays no...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Research
Brian Ray March 15, 2023 Excerpt: First, [Ray and Shakeel] obtained a nationally representative sample. Second, they collected data from the adult sample that included the full year-by-year 13-year schooling history and demographics during both childhood and...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Research
Rodger Williams Updated February 16, 2024 Public school advocates maintain that their schools protect students from child abuse because of mandatory reporters. But Federal data fails to support that assumption. Younger children are subject to higher rates of abuse...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Research
Steven Duvall July 7, 2020 Excerpt: During my 40 years in the field of school psychology, I’ve observed a significant shift in parents’ primary reasons for homeschooling. Years ago, parents ranked religious reasons at the top of their motivations for...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Research
Rodger WilliamsMarch 26, 2018 Some homeschool critics claim that no useful research results exist about homeschool child abuse rates, that we just do not know what these rates are. The fact that there has been no randomized sampling of the entire population of...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Research
Rodger WilliamsMarch 2,...
