Connecticut Republicans meet to say 'hands off homeschoolers'

EAST HADDAM, Conn. (WTNH) -- After two incidents of suspected abuse in one year sparked conversations about homeschooling reform in Connecticut, Republican state representatives and community members gathered for a meeting in East Haddam with one simple message -- keep your hands off homeschoolers.

Republican representatives met with homeschooling families at the East Haddam Grange Hall to update them on homeschool regulations, answer questions and hear concerns about potential policy changes.

"I don't think it should be touched at all,” said one mother at the meeting.

Many calls for homeschool reform have come in after two recent abuse investigations. Back in March, a Waterbury man accused his stepmother of pulling him out of school as a child and imprisoning him for 20 years in their