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Reporting Bad Homeschooling
Summary: To report bad homeschooling, contact the local school system to deal with the situation, or contact the police and Department of Family and Protective Services if the child's safety is in question. Report poor homeschooling after deciding on a main concern with advice from a homeschool specialist in this free video on homeschooling.
Linda Wooldridge has been homeschooling since 1998. She's also been on the PPEA (Pinellas Parent Educators Association) board for three years as the orientation coordinator for...read more
"Hi I'm Linda Wooldridge and I'm a home schooling mom. How do you report someone who is not home schooling well? Bad home schooling. It scares everyone. First of all think about specifically what your complaint is regarding this person's home schooling. Do you feel that their child is not being taught? Do you feel that their child is in personal physical danger where they are? Or are they being neglected? All of those things would need to be handed differently. Let's look at home schooling first. If your concern is that home schooling is not happening in that home, that the child is just being left to their own devices and never being taught, then you would want to contact the school system. Whatever the method of registration is, whether it is through your county schools or whether it is through a specific school for home schoolers, they will address that by investigating the parents' records and making sure that schooling is happening. If your concern is for the child's safety then by all means contact your local law enforcement or Department of Children and Families or whatever the governing body is for child safety in your area. A good place to start is with your local police department. Tell them of your concerns, they'll be able to investigate it anonymously for you. You may not hear the final report but you'll know that the child is being checked on for safety. Either way we want to know that children are being safely home schooled and that learning is happening. So first of all decide what specifically is your concern. If you have the ability to do it validate it with a neighbor or friend. See if they have the same feelings that you do and then report to either the school district or to the local law enforcement and let them investigate it for you and then you'll know that the children are being properly educated and being kept safe and that is how to report bad home schooling in your area. I'm Linda Wooldridge. Have a great home schooling day."
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kristin4 said
on 1/18/2009 Hi Linda. Thank you so much for putting this up. I'd just like to preface this with letting you know that I think home schooling can be great and effective, and am not inherently against it. That being said, I am very concerned for the way my nephew is being home schooled. He is nine and cannot read. His entire day of home schooling is literally 2 hours of what I would consider homework (spelling and arithmetic exercises.) These exercises are the same level that he had when he was pulled from school two years ago. His parents say they pulled him out because his teacher was mean to him by telling him he couldn't read at the level he should be able to. He is not learning history nor science, although I am told that he is. My sister-in-law does keep records of the work that they do together, but I have a very hard time believing that these records are kept honestly. He is so far behind and it is breaking my heart. I'd like to report it to the school system but I am afraid that if all they do is investigate the records, they will not find how deprived this child is. Please, if you have any more information on what an investigation is like, it would bring me hope and the courage to report it. I am also concerned that by reporting it, we will be kept forever from seeing our beloved nephew again, and that would be the worst outcome of all. However, if I knew that reporting it could save him from having the hard life that he is headed for, I could muster up the courage to lose him for his own sake. Thank you again for posting this video.