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  • I mean there are a lot of aspects to this. Homeschooling allows abusers to totally isolate children from society. If you have an abused or neglected child the teachers who are mandatory reporters may be the first to see and intervene. Parents maybe totally unwilling or unable to teach their children see the unschooling phenomenon. This leaves their children totally unprepared for life or years behind their peers academically.

    On the other side of the coin you have schools that teach to test and rote memorization as opposed to critical thinking and deep understanding of subjects. They seem to turn knowledge from a wonder to be sought to a job to be avoided. The schools themselves are more about training people to submit to top down authority and tolerate a workday then education. Depending on the school they operate as school to prison pipe lines locking students into caracal systems.

    That people homeschool shows the failing of our education system and society. I have wondered about the social aspect as we live in a deeply violent and domineering society. Are homeschools mass shooter or abusers at a higher per capita ratewhen controlled for other factors. That is to say if the lack of social skills don’t manifest as antisocial behavior it shouldn’t be a problem. I certainly am underwhelmed by the social tendencies of many Americans even the charming ones.



  • The answers you seek have been written about in works of restorative and transformative justice. That is where I would look. The prison abolitionists have tried to answer the question of how do we create justice and accountability.

    I looked for an article I had read that your post reminded me of but I couldn’t find it. It was somebody talking about how ridiculous it is having communities constantly on guard because a predator was just left in their midst and everybody just treated it as one of those things. The author thought it was less a broken stair and more a pit trap for the naive.

    There is a cost to leaving predators in your community. Vulnerable people will be harmed and leave. I’d be out if I find an org had somebody they considered dangerous. You can find example after example of destroyed disbanded orgs because one predator was left there festering. Women lqbtq and poc disabled people trans people will leave and they should but probably not before they are harmed. The police themselves have sent sexual criminals as saboteurs.

    Having accountability requires the person who is causing harm to do work and make change and recompenses and if they will not then gtfo. Most of your reason for letting this person potentially stay is rooted in fear of what they will do or duty to care for them. Our duty to care for others is nullified when people do not respond with care to us. Toss them out and if they want back they can change.