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More propaganda from the NEA and its ilk.
When I homeschool my kids, it won't be for reasons of "safety". It will be because the goobermint skrewl system does a pi$$-poor job of educating (as opposed to indoctrinating) kids.
End of story.
Ditto from one former (lunatic, mental, latent murdering, insert any other epithet) home school mom. What? Oh, yeah. They graduated with mechanical and civil engineering degrees respectively and are now officers in the Navy. Woops, how did that happen?
How pathetic... Let's see the oldest was 24 - yep she had no opportunity to tell...Let's blame homeschooling instead of the sick psychopath...
The title of this article might as well be "Children No Safer With Their Parents Than They Are With Strangers."
It is much easier to let the public school system babysit your kids than to keep them at home.
I am a home schooling mom, but I am also a foster parent. So, I am trying to look at this issue from both sides. In many ways I would love for our government to go to a voucher system for school dollars, allowing us home schoolers to cash our vouchers to pay for curriculum costs. But I also realize that this would encourage some people to try to "get around" the system by keeping their children home in order to receive voucher funds. It is also an added problem with abusive parents whose children may then have little outside contact with anyone to whom they might report problems or abuses. My experience has been, however, that most abusive or neglectful parents want their children going to public schools since they then don't have to feed their children from their own dollar, their children are marked as "in need" and often receive clothing, gifts and other things that their parents can't or won't provide them with, and they get a "break" from their children so that they can do what they want to be doing. The cases of children being kept home from schooling for any length of time because a parent wants to abuse or neglect the child are extremely rare. Even in the case you have provided, the story states that the girls and the mother went outside the home to work. This means the girls DID have outside contact with people away from the father. It is stories like this that give homeschooling a bad name. We should not jump to the conclusion that ALL home schoolers may have an ulterior motive.
Well - I'm wondering if this is a way someone has found to attack home schooling ()
Why can't something be set up to monitor parents requesting to do home schooling - for the childrens sake - That shouldn't be hard to do - I wouldn't think -
After hearing about the teens that tossed the turkey, what the one boy did to the other boy in school, and seeing how many kids behave today - and having been schooled in public schools - I'd take home schooling anyday -
I also read where the test showing improvement in the public schools may not be giving an accurate account of what is going on. The tests are made too easy - and that is said to be why the scores are going up - Is that really helping these kids?
Why isn't someone doing a complete investigation into the public schools - Too bad someone doesn't have the power to set up an investigating team - I'd start with the teachers and the school boards - Too many children are turning to violence to solve their problems - real or imagined - and I would think that shows there is a breakdown -
No Child Left Behind will never work until/unless someone goes back to start - and makes sure the base is there - Why throw more money after bad -
The whole situation is sad - and bad for this nation. In my opinion -
I don't think this would happen in a homeschool environment.
I don't see the connection between home schooling and the crime.
Homeschooling had nothing to do with this crime.
BS. To put all homeschooling kids in this category is as stupid as the Law & Order CI episode where the homeschooling mother blows up her kids.
These people are just upset because they can't get a crack at my kids (I homeschool) to program them the way they want toooooooo!
This is nothing more than liberal claptrap intended to support leftist causes, public schools, and portray Christians as dumb, violent yahoos. Citing this case as evidence of the risk of homeschooling is like claiming democracy is an unsafe form of government because elections in Africa are corrupt and always results in dictatorships.
The article doesn't tell you the truth about Marcus Wesson. He is not a white hick who carries a Bible and expects his women to be subservient. He is an African-American rafsanjari type with dreadlocks who had all his children with multiple women (including via incest with children and nieces) and is probably mentally ill.
From the Fresno Bee, April 18, 2004
http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/8454304p-9289231c.html
the 300-pound Wesson looms as a monster who twisted the Bible to suit his sexual appetite, fathered children with his daughters and nieces and sometimes fed his family pinto beans and fruit taken from trash cans while he dined on hamburgers, cookies and other junk food. Authorities, relatives and public records suggest he has fathered up to 18 children with seven women, including members of his family.
Here's the pervert's photos:
The author of this article is looking under rocks for fringe characters in order to make his case that homeschooling is bad.
The newest statistics on the unending failure of government schools must have just been released. You can always count on hit pieces on homeschooling right about that time.
Most accidents occur in the home, as this article clearly illustrates....
teachers could have saved them...
Forget Jesus Christ, 'teachers' are the new saviors according to the left and the media. Gag me with a pitchfork.
Johnny can't read, can't make change, can't do elementary math, but the teachers care more about him than anyone else.
The Wesson case is an old story, which shows how this author had to hunt high and low to find supporting evidence for the article's preconceived conclusions.
I wonder what evidence there is that this family home schooled. Not being enrolled in a school does not make a child a home schooler.
Here is another section of it. It tells about the powerful HSLDA and Patrick Henry College. It make mentions that some politicians are afraid of the HSLDA (which is good in my opinion)and the fact that Patrick Henry students are very active in government and how they helped to defeat Tom Dashle.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/10221547.htm
By this same token, since kids and teachers are regularly shot in public schools, public schools should all be shut down as being too dangerous.