TRENTON (AP) New Jersey's child welfare agency is re-examining its policy of allowing children under its supervision to be homeschooled, a spokesman for the Division of Youth and Family Services said Tuesday.How immature and incompetent is that?
The children of a Collingswood couple now accused of starving four adopted sons were homeschooled, a circumstance that could have helped the boys' condition go unnoticed.
"When a child is in public or private school, there are more people seeing the child, which may allow us to see abuse or neglect earlier rather than later," said Joe Delmar, a spokesman for the Division of Youth and Family Services.
"'This is a social services issue, not a homeschool issue,' Haas said, referring to the Collingswood case. 'If 38 visits from (DYFS) failed to reveal problems, then sending in paperwork would not have done it.' "
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