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Abstract
ABSTRACT School safety has been widely studied from the perspectives of administrators, teachers, and students in traditional education settings. However, parents’ perceptions of school safety have been largely overlooked. Moreover, it is unknown how homeschool parents conceptualize safety in educational settings despite school safety being a known motivator for homeschooling. This mixed-methods study uses two years of national-level survey data from 2,124 respondents and four focus groups with thirteen participants to investigate homeschool parents’ school safety concerns. Supporting existing literature, we find that homeschool parents are likely to also be parents of special-needs learners. Findings suggest homeschool parents are not concerned with physical as much as psychological and academic safety. Moreover, homeschool parents tend to frame the concepts and concerns of school safety through the lens their own or their children’s prior traditional school experiences. Study limitations, practitioner implications, and future directions for research are discussed.
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