>For every parent who has the right personality, time AND education to teach their child at home, there are 5,000 who should NOT be teaching their kids - or anyone's kids.
Could say the same about teachers in schools really.
Could say the same about teachers in schools really.
Parents teaching at home have no guardrails. They can beat their kids or feed them candy all day, and nobody will know for a decade.
If they disappear into the forest, never to be seen by society again, sure. But for the families that have some community engagement, you soon find out. People notice, people talk.
Of course, knowing and doing something about it are very different things.
Err... no. No, they aren't.
You have no idea how hard it is to fire a bad teacher. I'll give you a hint: real friggin' hard.
While I admire teachers (the many good ones) and their training, the fact is you don’t have to be smarter than them when you are teaching one or two kids full time and they are teaching ~25 for 6 hours a day.
There were almost 500 sexual misconduct complaints again public school teachers in just Chicago in 2022 when not all kids were back in school. There's something fundamentally broken there.
Ref: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/report-500-sexual-misconduct-...
If you read section 4 of the CPS report they reference, you’ll find some interesting stats that Illinois Policy neglected to highlight:
- The investigative unit in question does not have discretion over what it must open a case for; they must open a case and investigate every claim even when said claims are submitted anonymously, or without evidence, even without names attached.
- That same investigative unit recently had its role expanded to include broader, non-sexual violations of the CPS guidelines for staff/student interactions.
- Over the past four years, it has only substantiated 300 policy violations, of which only 16 resulted in criminal charges.
So … suffice it to say Illinois Policy is selling a pretty slanted narrative there. They aren’t a neutral party. The actual report paints a hell of a lot less damning picture.
It is extremely misleading to say that 500 sexual misconduct allegations were leveled against teachers in one year.
Parents are not required to do any of that.