Report: Home Schooling Is a Scam. Also, Water is Wet.

For pity's fucking sake.  People in Kentucky have been screaming this fact for literally decades.  Everybody knows home schooling is a fraud.  Always has been, always will be.

From the Herald:

While acknowledging there’s quality education in many home schools, state public school officials worry that some families “who claim to be home schooling” are actually trying to hide truancy.

Eighty-two percent of state pupil personnel directors — those responsible for enforcing attendance laws — told researchers with the Kentucky Office of Education Accountability, they have observed families they believe are taking advantage of flexibility in home school laws to avoid legal consequences of truancy, Deborah Nelson, an analyst for the OEA told state lawmakers Tuesday.
 
Attendance verification was just one of the multiple issues with home schooling accountability that made an OEA report.
 
In Kentucky, parents are required to tell local districts annually if their children are being home schooled and they must maintain attendance and grade reports, but the OEA report said there is little guidance in how they should be monitored.
 
Home school parents have to teach the same subjects as public schools and to hold classes for the same duration of time as the public school term, but the teaching is not monitored, the report said.
 
And those charged with enforcing attendance are confused about the criteria they should use to monitor whether parents are providing adequate information to districts because there is no legal guidance or minimum standards, Nelson said. They often don’t know what to do if they are concerned about the quality of a home school, she added.

State officials have done nothing to establish and enforce regulations to ensure home schooling actually educates children for one simple reason: freakazoid political power.  The vast majority of homeschoolers in Kentucky are xianist fanatics who don't want public school to interfere with the pure religious bullshit they indoctrinate in their children. So they forced the legislature to keep home schooling entirely unregulated.

That's not in this report, of course.