Deaths of home-schooled kids across US shocking, but lawmakers reluctant to create new rules

Star Tribune ^ | 12-6-15 | Bill Draper

[Arm_Bears]

How do the deaths of home-schooled children compare to the deaths of children attending public school?

What are the respective rates, per 10,000 students, for example?

[DennisR]

Hm...my guess is that many more children in public schools die. What an idiotic premise for a newspaper article.

[Organic Panic]

Interesting examples they used in the opening paragraph. All ‘children’ of Obama and the freezer deaths were so Mommy could still collect their welfare checks.

[gettinolder]

WTF.

Bullshit with a vendetta.

[muir_redwoods]

Allowing for reportorial malice, I think the take-away point is that, without a circle of contacts, home schooled kids can disappear with fewer folks noticing. On an aggregate level the home schooled kids might well be safer but it probably is true that fewer people will notice their absence.

[oblomov]

The answer is simple: we MUST ban freezers and pigsties. It’s for the children.

[Lizavetta]

Let's tally up the public schooled children already on CPS's radar who were left in abusive homes and consequently died. All while attending public school, all known cases by our fabulous government workers.

Then get back to me about homeschooling.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I hardly think public schools are safer. This is just a liberal agenda hit piece.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

It is not about home schooling. It’s the freezer’s fault. Ban freezers.

[o_1_2_3__]

Those don’t count.

[DakotaGator]

The Red Star Tribune again living up to its name.

[Dr. Sivana]

And which of these deaths would have been prevented if there were home-school checkup laws?

[miss marmelstein]

Mass freezer deaths?

[cripplecreek]

The Detroit case had nothing to do with home schooling.

The woman had been reported multiple times for possible abuse by the public school the kids were attending. It wasn’t till months after the kids disappeared from the school that questions were asked and the woman started claiming the kids were being home schooled.

The kids were dead before the woman ever claimed to be home schooling them. CPS failed to investigate allegations of abuse when the kids were still alive.

[House Atreides]

The Red Star Tribune again living up to its name.
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Well, it’s an AP story & the AP is living up to the name “Absolutely Pseudo-news”.

[Tax-chick]

“Across the U.S.” = “in three different states, which happened to be far from one another.

[DannyTN]

Exactly the right question.

[pierrem15]

3 deaths in how many years? Compared to how many children killed, bullied or sexually abused in public schools?

[Scrambler Bob]

Everyone who graduates (or drops out) from a public school WILL die!