Elizabeth Bartholet appears in a recent Fox News story by Mitti Hicks, More Parents Consider Homeschooling As Permanent Option During Coronavirus Pandemic (Fox News, 7/19/20). In the article, Bartholet comments on two of her concerns with the expansion of unregulated homeschooling post-COVID. First, the quality of education: children may fall behind academically due to inadequate instruction as few states require that parents have any credentials. Second, the increased risk of unreported abuse and neglect: she describes how students at home are at greater risk of abuse going undetected because they are away from schools where teachers are “the largest group of people who report to child protection authorities abuse and neglect.”
