Cherie Walker will spend the rest of her life behind bars for letting her husband impregnate her 11-year-old daughter, whom they forced to give birth without medical care.
At my first teaching job, a first-grader told her teachers and the principal that the bruises on her legs were from her mom hitting her with a belt. We reported it to Child Protective Services, and when they followed up, the mom pulled her out of school to “homeschool” her instead.
Covering up physical abuse is one of many reasons why homeschooling needs more oversight.
This is sad, but true.
At my first teaching job, a first-grader told her teachers and the principal that the bruises on her legs were from her mom hitting her with a belt. We reported it to Child Protective Services, and when they followed up, the mom pulled her out of school to “homeschool” her instead.
Covering up physical abuse is one of many reasons why homeschooling needs more oversight.
Isn’t CPS supposed to be a sharp sword of the state?
religion is kind of a tricky subject. if its religious they can’t touch it, and they were never all that sharp.
Supposed to be, but (like everything else) it’s incredibly underfunded.
They only pretend to care about child protections to pass invasive laws