[Wonder Warthog]

"A CBS News investigation found dozens of cases of parents convicted or accused of murder or child abuse who were teaching their children at home, out of the public eye."

Ah me! Typical liberal media hypocrisy. How about the hundreds (thousands??) of victims of child abuse who WERE "in the public eye" (e.g. government run schools) who were abused, and which abuse happened because "the authorities" missed or ignored the danger signals????

[Izzy Dunne]

who were teaching their children at home, out of the public eye.

Note the implication of furtiveness, hiding, secretiveness.... It's everyone's RESPONSIBILITY to offer up their kids for public approval, and Dagnab it, these people ARE NOT DOING THAT!

[Judith Anne]

"Largely unregulated."

For heaven's sake! Will the Socialists--the Nazis--never rest until every last single solitary aspect of life is regulated and taxed?

Before they start --in fact, before they even THINK about -- regulating home schoolers, I'd like to see a thorough audit of the Education department. And I'd like to see the pedophiles out of the nations' schools, as well as the entire homosexual agenda.

[Diogenesis]

CBS ONLY respects Communist Authority
OR "Have you EVER seen Dan look so happy?"

[don-o]

These reports were "so over the top" that I suspect it may have backfired on the BS network.

Anyone with at least two brain cells firing simply had to see the obvious agenda at work.

I hope.

[Izzy Dunne]

A downside to not having a TV is that I have no power over these people. I can't "boycott" CBS - I already haven't watched a single minute of CBS for over five years. I'm trying to forget the stuff that I DID watch before then.

So they are not interested in my views - I'm not a customer.

I didn't see the program, so I can't speak first-hand (not that I doubt NCHE or CNSNews).

Not much that I can do.

[tbpiper]

out of the public eye

I think it's time to stick a righteous finger in the 'public eye'.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

And had the homeschool advocacy groups acted quickly to disavow themselves of warts and marginal cases, the movement might have a little better image.

It ain't all what its cracked up to be, and I'm somebody who can say that from experience.

[Tax-chick]

The headline suggests that someone believes the problem at CBS is ignorance of the truth, rather than deliberate promotion of the lie. How naive. Homeschooling is a threat to liberals' social-control agenda; therefore they will engage in any dishonest attack.

[whereasandsoforth]

This "report" was on CBS. That means no one watched the program (except for a few mountain dwellers that get only one or two channels). If we were not talking about it here, it not be on anyone's radar screen.

The puppet show at the Albany zoo has a larger audience than CBS.

[No_Outcome_But_Victory]

"largely unregulated" homeschool movement

Where exactly is it unregulated?

In the state of Washington we have various requirements to follow including filing an educational plan, mandatory testing, parental certification, etc.

Don't most states attempt to regulate all education in some way?

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

The series concluded by noting that no states require "criminal background checks" of the parents who homeschool their children.

Yeah... that's what we need... "criminal background checks" for parents. NOT!!! What a bunch of idiots! So... the parent isn't fit to homeschool their child because he/she was a criminal but the parent is OK to raise the child. I guess the govt. will be trying to take that away next.

[Gone_Postal]

the press, and all liberial polictal hacks are scared to dreath of homeschools......why because these people teach their kids the truth about history, and social behavior, along with how to read, write, and add.....

They are afraid of an informed public....as seen recently in Ca.

I live in NC and my wife and I homeschooled all 3 of our kids, they all grew up fine and fuction well.

[GovernmentShrinker]

The two-part report included several examples of parents who had "taught their children at home" but who had ended up abusing and killing the children. Texas mother Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in a bathtub, was listed as one of the examples.

Minor detail they skipped: none of the Yates children were old enough to come under the state's compulsory schooling law, for either outside or home schooling.