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My kids went to public school and I also home schooled. My grandkids now go to a private school. All three are workable with parent/family involvement and all three will fail without it. The concern here of emphasizing home school , IMO, is summed up by what you can see on TV tonight though. There was some woman on FOX, from a major university that was talking about there had to have been 'signs" that would have been evident as early as 5. Maybe so. O'Reilly eagerly backed her up with that, you have to bring in people from the outside to see and deal with it. What usually follows here is that if a kid had been in public school, then problems might have been picked up, before a blow up. Maybe, but the public school system doesn't have a perfect record on this either. I do not "hate" public schools but it's not what works for my family. A lot of really good kids come out of them but there are people that really "hate" the ideal of home schooling though because they have no control and will use this to their advantage to try to regulate or shut it down. That is what concerns me.

DS, the other way to look at it, is that she could be too "fragile" to attend. I hope she goes.

Cindy, isn't it strange that many of the children that compete in the National Spelling Bee are home schooled? That's a plus.

They are trying to analyze the boy with "signs". What they fail to come to terms with is that this kid just "snapped". There is not always a fatal first time as in this tragic case.

There was some woman on FOX, from a major university that was talking about there had to have been 'signs" that would have been evident as early as 5. Maybe so. O'Reilly eagerly backed her up with that, you have to bring in people from the outside to see and deal with it.

And so it begins. Amazing, but it's true that they could stretch it that far - that if the kid had gone to school, his psychological problems might've been acknowledged and addressed. Which could lead to: Maybe the state should require psychological evaluations of homeschoolers.

It seems so farfetched, but here in my state a homeschool family with adopted children was charged with starving them. Legislation was introduced to require us to submit medical forms to the public schools. So far, it has been squashed. But, oddly, the state's CPS agency itself had been visiting the family on a regular basis and never noticed the kids starving. So who did the state go after? Homeschoolers, of course.