This kid’s mom took him out of public school and home schooled him because she didn’t agree with the school’s plan for her son. It would be wrong to use this tragedy, or Matthew Murray who did the CO church shooting, as a vehicle to condemn all home schoolers.
Believe me; I know that our public schools have lots of problems. I also know that there are many deeply religious and politically conservative, (many nonunion like me) staff members who serve in those schools. I have no problems with parents who chose to home school or send their kids to a private school; just remember how unfair the charge would be now and next time maybe put the brush back into the holster.
OK, flame away.
pitiful post
Mothers of mentally ill sons often become obsessive and overprotective, and it sounds like that was her problem. She’d apparently been protecting him for years, even before the divorce (2009), and after that, he became her whole life. She was trying to get him into some special engineering program, and she planned to follow him to the school and live near him.
I think she simply refused to admit the degree of his illness, and once he was out of school, she had no more reality checks at all.
I agree with you. It’s seen as a cure-all by some. It’s not.
Fire extinguisher for ya here.... I agree with you.
There is also this being reported on the AP:
http://www.theday.com/article/20121217/NWS12/121219735/1070/FRONTPAGE
That he started taking college classes at age 16 at Western Connecticut State University.
Agree with your comments. Also applies to the glib comments about “if only the others had a gun”. Yes, but please stop falling all over ourselves to hammer on these points. It just ends up seeming silly, as much as liberals’ knee-jerk “see guns must be banned”.
I’ve worked 16+ years in public schools. I agree that there is a lot wrong with public schools. However, the broad brush some want to paint public education with is tainted with severe, and oft unfounded, bias. Most educators are not to blame for the problems in public education. In fact, I’ve had more than a few conversations with teachers, most of them liberal (I am very conservative), who agree with me that the reason many students do not do well in public school is because of the people who work in cubicles in some antiseptic building that make the decisions regarding the curriculum and how students will be taught. These people have hardly, if ever, stepped onto a school campus, let alone into a classroom. Teachers and other school staff (I’m a School Psychologist) are not permitted to provide their input into the decisions that politicians and retired bureaucrats make regarding education. When I was in Elementary School, I wasn’t introduced to the concept of Algebra until 6th or 7th grade. Today, introductory Algebra concepts are being taught in Kindergarten. The pressures we are placing children under from a purely academic expectation is ridicules.
it shows me that this mother which did a lousy job as a parent did not want her kid to be treeated as he should and she wanted to hear what she wanted to hear.
This get a shrink who will give him drugs, tell him it;s alright to be different and then this is what happens.
About time parents gave up some of their own lives, laid some discipline down, hard work, morals, respect instead of this modern aprenting, promoting divorce, no father needed, treat all kids nicey nice and all are equal
That left wing crap has given us this and yes much of the media with their dog walkers, nannies, cleaners are as bad.
Get the kid to clean, help to cook, kids can walk the dog
That's good.
I will still rail against public schools. They have become dens of iniquity, that advocate socialism, anti-Americanism, homosexuality, and atheism. I am glad on the individual level that there are deeply religious, and conservative staff members in these areas. They can be salt and lights in this dark world. God bless them. I hope your's and these other folks Bible studies with their students are very fruitful.
That said, schools should be privatized. The public/government system has degenerated to the point that they are a detriment rather than a benefit.
His medical records will tell more than his school records. He didn’t go off the reservation when he was being home schooled but as an adult.
He may have been on medication through his teen yeaars and under psychiatric care until he turned 18 and then at that point started exerting his independence and wanted to stop taking his medications.
Starting, stopping, adding, subtracting, or adjusting psychiatric medications are times when a person is most vulnerable to going postal.
But being that it is covered by HIPPA we may never know.
What a disappointing post. You do the very thing you complain about others doing. And we didn’t homeschool any of the kids.
Left him in public school too long. 10th grade = damage already done.
A child with developmental or personality disorders in the State of Connecticut receives a yearly IEP or Individualized Education Plan. The IEP is generally the product of the school psychologist, social worker and guidance counselor in conjunction with the teachers and administrators at the school. Goals and progress measurements are outlined in the IEP, and it is visited at least a couple of times each year in a conference setting with all the contributors, the parent(s) and a child advocate, if requested. It sounds to me as though the mother did not agree with the findings of the report, and pulled her son.
0bama's assault on 'big oil' in his first term was bolstered by BP's oil rig explosion. GEE, WHAT A COINCIDENCE.
0bama's assault or 'gun grab' in his second term is bolstered by the murder of kids, using "assault weapons".. Want more? Okay, he was home schooled! GEE, WHAT A COINCIDENCE.
0bama's been doing what he does best on Benghazi.. RUN OUT THE CLOCK!! Hillary was due to TESTIFY THIS THURSDAY, DEC. 20TH ON BENGHAZI. Uh oh, she's had a concussion and now says she can't testify on doctor's orders.. GEE, WHAT A COINCIDENCE.
0bama's reign has been plagued by COINCIDENCES. One after another. At some point you need to rethink mocking those wearing tin foil hats. There's something going on that's far more sinister that VINDICATES WE TIN FOIL HAT WEARERS. That these are NOT coincidences, and are beyond statistical probability as well.
It was the stress of climate change, best to blame owlgore now. ( Me=so sick of looking for reasons to tear up the constitution that has kept us free until 2008, now? it’s fighting for its very life.)
After reading that article my first thought was is that the real reason he was pulled out or is it that the school can’t handle her son? Being autistic may mean he can do well in math (which he did), but he would not be able to do well in other subjects which was the case. Pushing someone at too young in age, according to development theory, is not a good thing. Nevertheless this child may just very well be strongly mentally ill. Someone who said they were a neighbor to that family said the younger one (when initial reports said the oldest one did it) was the one likely to commit such a crime.
Israeli Schoolchildren murdered sorry there are NO You Tube videos of Israeli school children being terrorized BUT key on such and you will find all sorts of "pali" schoolchildren being terrorized by the IDF and more Israeli school children terrorized daily
Hutus vs Tutsi murders, mostly machetes
Rwanda schoolchildren murdered
Janet reno terrorized a Cubano kid, sent him packing
Janet reno kills 17 children .
< a href="http://youtu.be/5_rk3RP5KQs"> Progressive Roosevelt incarcerates japanese children
Heavens Gate, new tennis shoees cult
allah orders murder of children, but you won't find the poisonings and killings of children on You Tube
Rav Kook slaughter of children by al Fatah pali
Aftermath of SCarab spring in Egypt, Copts mainly>
Muslims murder 43,students,Boku Haren in Nigeria
Australian break ins and horrid crimes up since gun control instituted
Nigerian gunmen murder 26 in Nigeria
Has gun control worked in Australia? Snopes( biased me thinks) say yes, worked great. But crime continues to rise in Australia
All of the above can go on and on and on. This horrid, HORRID attack by a sick man killing so many innocent children is terrible in all ways. But please think if anyone can( I know FReepers are smart folks) what will happen, when our rights are remooved completely, then attackwatch.com, flag.gov will not be mocked it will have simply been a [premature idea but will be enforced if we do not counter this madness with logic and reason. Then again, look at logic and reason in the 1600 page,"You first have to vote on it before you can see it,"bill.
The problem isn't public schools, it is the radicalization of them into indoctrination factories for the nanny state.
There are good, dedicated, values and conscience driven teachers in the public schools. The main problem is that there are not enough of them.
So apparently your whole point in posting was to warn HS’ing folks?