Case of shackled California kids revives home-school regulation debate [mercurynews.com]

Alicia Doktor 1/30/184:00 AM

Just over a week after California officials found 13 malnourished siblings allegedly held captive and apparently not missed by schools because they were being home-schooled, home-schooling advocates say they are bracing for calls for stricter oversight of the practice.

The advocates say they were horrified by accusations that the children’s parents kept them shackled in a filthy home in the Southern California city of Ferris, and some said they support mandatory medical visits or regular academic assessments of home-schooled children.

But others contend moves to step up home-schooling controls in the name of exposing child abuse earlier could lead to overregulation and intrusion that punishes parents.

[For more on this story by CAROLYN THOMPSON, go to https://www.mercurynews.com/20...l-regulation-debate/]

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