Whose custody is it, anyway?: ‘Homeschooling’ from a <i>parens patriae</i> perspective
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Proponents of ‘homeschooling’ routinely claim it is legal for parents to rear their children as they see fit. This view ignores the parens patriae doctrine — the primary legal basis for the judicial regulation of custody and the legislative enactment of compulsory schooling laws for the benefit of all children. This article challenges claims that ‘homeschooling’ is legal (without qualification) with evidence of the continuing vitality of the parens patriae doctrine in two North American jurisdictions. In New York and Ontario, where ‘homeschooling’ is not statutorily prohibited, the state through its legislative and judicial organs continues to limit the custodial authority of ‘homeschooling’ parents on the ground that children’s independent welfare and developmental interests include exposure to public formative influences.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it