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Austin bombings cast unwelcome spotlight on homeschooling
San Antonio Express ^ | 4/8/2018 | Alejandra Matos and Andrea Zelinski

Posted on 04/08/2018 6:44:19 AM PDT by sodpoodle

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Excerpted the article to highlight the problem with 'parents' using 'homeschooling' as a cover for isolating their children to abuse, or cover up other problems.

God, we have a problem - please save our children from evil.

1 posted on 04/08/2018 6:44:20 AM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: sodpoodle

Not sure what they’re complaining about. This kid was a better student than was Clock Boy.


2 posted on 04/08/2018 6:46:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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The Ettinger woman sounds awful and it looks like she’s being paid by teachers’ unions to get “oversight” of home-school kids for her “certified teachers”... some of whom like to have sex with teenagers. I’m taking this with a LARGE dash of consider the source.


3 posted on 04/08/2018 6:47:51 AM PDT by jyo19
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To: sodpoodle
and avoid the pitfalls of traditional school life


4 posted on 04/08/2018 6:51:02 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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avoid the pitfalls of traditional school life.

Like bullying, incompetent teachers, indoctrinating curriculum, getting shot ...

5 posted on 04/08/2018 6:51:52 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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We can not allow these home school kids to evade our control.

They must be trained to conform.


6 posted on 04/08/2018 6:53:48 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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So I guess that the Parkland shooting is the result of public schooling or that some guy wearing a Confederate flag T-shirt goes and shoots nine people that the history of the Civil War is being dismantled.

I was home schooled by the best. From what I read about what is happening in today's public schools I wouldn't want to have attended.

7 posted on 04/08/2018 6:53:55 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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>> avoid the pitfalls of traditional school life.
>
> Like bullying, incompetent teachers, indoctrinating
> curriculum, getting shot

... and stabbed, and robbed, etc.


8 posted on 04/08/2018 6:54:12 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: sodpoodle

Let’s compare the number of shooters from Public Schools to those home schooled and make the case that Public School students are TWENTY TIMES MORE LIKELY TO MURDER.


9 posted on 04/08/2018 6:57:37 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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The group advocates for increased oversight of home-schooled students, such as requiring that each...meet yearly with a certified teacher for annual testing and with a doctor for a physical checkup...

This is a GREAT idea as long as I get to certify the teacher and the doctor after conducting my own interview and investigation and each such person has to submit a resume I can vet. I also get to create the test.

It seems like more kids are abused at school than among the home schooled. Likely, many more kids at school have their lives stolen from them because of a completely worthless education attached to harmful indoctrination.

10 posted on 04/08/2018 6:58:00 AM PDT by stevem
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When they can stop the public school students from shooting up schools, then we can talk about looking at home schools.


11 posted on 04/08/2018 6:58:00 AM PDT by Lockbox
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...and with a doctor for a physical checkup...

The anonymized data could be slipped to FakeBook for a marketing profile on home schoolers.     /s

12 posted on 04/08/2018 7:06:59 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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I have two close girlfriends who home school their kids. I’ve known those kids since BIRTH and they are super-smart, POLITE, well-mannered, and they LISTEN and BEHAVE...aside from the usual meltdowns little kids have and the surliness ALL teens develop for a while.

Those kids are a JOY to be around. The oldest of the two families is going to a Catholic Junior High School this year and she is YEARS ahead of her peers.

So proud and happy for my friends. It can be done!


13 posted on 04/08/2018 7:11:47 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: sodpoodle

Parkland shootings cast unwelcome spotlight on public schools.


14 posted on 04/08/2018 7:16:54 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: sodpoodle

Because public schools are completely safe.


15 posted on 04/08/2018 7:18:47 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I learned discipline early on. My home schooling teachers were my dad, uncle, two brothers and my mom. All were military except my mom who was a military brat (not that I said that in front of her LOL) - a Marine, and three Army. I had my first rifle, a .22 single shot when I was seven.


16 posted on 04/08/2018 7:25:13 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: sodpoodle

Believe it or not, the “Coalition for Responsible Home Education” is based in Massachusetts, not Texas.

Looking through the biographies of the board members, it appears every one of them is a former home schooler stuck in a cycle of rebellion against their religious parents and desperate for acceptance by academia.

Most of their articles include a nod to positive outcomes, but they do so as a way to introduce or leverage a negative interpretation of data. The consistency of the narratives in each “study” strongly suggest that they cherry pick data to support their foregone conclusions before they begin.

If anything, they could make the strongest case against homeschooling by just writing about themselves.


17 posted on 04/08/2018 7:25:50 AM PDT by jz638
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Because, as we all know, public schooled kids never cause any trouble or hurt anyone.


18 posted on 04/08/2018 7:35:32 AM PDT by Timmy
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To: stevem

“This is a GREAT idea as long as I get to certify the teacher and the doctor after conducting my own interview and investigation and each such person has to submit a resume I can vet. I also get to create the test.”

Well put. I see it the same. The ENTIRE PURPOSE of home schooling is to keep our kids away from these beasts (even if most conservative parents still have NO CLUE as to what, exactly, they are subjecting their kids to when they see them climb into that big yellow bus).


19 posted on 04/08/2018 7:40:12 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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I’d settle for all government school teachers submitting to a literacy test once a year and any that fail are banned from teaching for life.


20 posted on 04/08/2018 7:42:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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