Realistically, (aside from today) children are probably every bit as safe in an Amish schoolhouse as they are being homeschooled. This monster could have just as easily invaded someone's home and massacred children.
And I have a feeling that the curriculum in the Amish school would meet with the approval of homeschoolers.
I agree.
So right you are. I believe the Mennonites developed the Weaver curriculum for homeschool use just down the street in Lancaster.
We are DEDICATED homeschoolers, but from my experience, it is likely the children in Amish schools get a better education than they would in a lot of the homeschools I know, including my own.
We use books from Pathways and Rod & Staff curricula, which are printed by the Amish and Mennonites, respectively, and they are serious, steep-curve currucula. No fuzzy-wuzzy, feel-good junk.
Next to the Amish and Mennonite currucula, the others look downright silly with their dress-up clowns and dancing-bears.
However, our teachers (Mama and Papa) have guns, but we don't carry them all the time. So our children are probably a little safer. Depends on if the invader can get the jump on us.
I don't know what freepatriot posted because it appears those comments have been deleted. I'm on freepatriot's ping list, but I have no ping from him to this thread; it probably was deleted. I did read some responses quoting his comments as "another reason to homeschool ping," and I'm going to assume he was pinging me with a heads-up because ARTHS is simply the name of the list I run.
Freepatriot, if the reaction you received was negative, the name of our list is probably what set people off. In fact, I never use the name on school tragedy threads like this one for that very reason. I'll respond to some of those freepers.
Wagglebee, true, these shootings can happen anywhere. The big public schools are just bigger targets - there are a lot of kids, people there are unarmed, etc. A small, one-room Amish school is practically a homeschool group. I've often worried that people could start targeting homeschool groups, but they don't know where we meet. In my state, we're like an underground movement. I have to say, too, in a lot of the homeschool groups, even in the blue state where I live, many of the people there have quick access to a gun if needed.