[jimkress]

Valerie and her four brothers were home-schooled by their parents.

Valerie and her four-brthoers also watched tv, drank coke, and went to the movies. What possible reason would home-schooling be mentioned, in the context of this horrific crime, if the intent was to do anything but demonize home schooling?

[Shadowfax]

Goodness knows, children who are institutionalized in schools NEVER know the pain of abuse.

I just watched the CBS News video. It is an unapologetic hit piece. It doesn't even attempt to get across the truth - that these cases of abuse are rare, almost unheard of. And that abuse of schooled children is far more prevalent.

If rates of abuse were the criteria for how children should be schooled, all kids would learn at home. For every kid whose parents abuse them under the guise of homeschooling, there are hundreds of examples of teachers and parents of traditionally schooled children torturing and killing them.

And I would even argue that taking bright, intelligent, active kids and institutionalizing them in schools where their main occupation is sitting in desks being bored out of their skulls listening to adults talk at them about things that they couldn't care the least about is, in and of itself, abusive.

[GovernmentShrinker]

To be fair, whenever something like this happens to a child who does attend school, the news coverage usually mentions what school the child attended.