God, we have a problem - please save our children from evil.
Not sure what they’re complaining about. This kid was a better student than was Clock Boy.
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.
Like bullying, incompetent teachers, indoctrinating curriculum, getting shot ...
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.
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.
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.
The anonymized data could be slipped to FakeBook for a marketing profile on home schoolers. /s
Parkland shootings cast unwelcome spotlight on public schools.
Because public schools are completely safe.
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.
Because, as we all know, public schooled kids never cause any trouble or hurt anyone.
And the Parkland school shooter was publicly educated. In fact... all the public school shooters were products of the public school system.
Do we want to go there? Or is the writer a product of the public school system and not capable of basic logic?
I would lol if were it not sad.
Government schools got us Sandy Hook, Parkland and Colombine. Where is that spotlight? Not to mention the school to prison pipeline, and the carnage in Chicago.
This is political opportunism by teacher unions. Who knows if that kid going bizerk had anything to do with home schooling.
Haven’t the majority of school and other shooters and other violent crazies been school educated like Nikolas Cruz? Any one have a comparative list?
Check the research (google Dr. Brian Ray) and you will discover that on standardized tests, homeschoolers consistently score 35-40 percentile points above the national average, and score way below national averages for antisocial indicators such as addiction, self-harm, and criminal behavior.
Our parish had a horde of homeschool kids at a special Mass today (Sunday) and you never saw a more engaged, better-behaved bunch of kids. Just a joy to behold.
Teachers and their leftist friends in New Hampshire have tried over and over again to impose tighter restrictions on home schooled students than public schooled students. And yet 60% of public school students in some districts report illegal drug use in the previous month, and dozens of high school age kids die of drug overdoses. And in many districts the majority of students are not proficient in any academic area.
Plenty of kids in terrible situations attend public schools and the school does nothing about it, or makes the situation worse. And remember, the press always characterizes a kid as "home schooled" if possible when they do something bad.
Adam Lanza spent most of his life as a student in public schools. So did Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, and Nikolas Cruz.
A good starting point for public schools and their unionized liberal teachers would be for them to justify why they should not be subject to additional oversight, both in terms of drug use by students, fostering violent criminals, and in terms of their failure to teach many students successfully.
Such as gangs, drugs, bullies, molesting teachers, leftism, etc.
So the teacher can find out whether the student adheres to global warming doctrine and the doctor can find out whether there is a gun in the house? No thanks.