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Homeschoolers can admit this association when the mainstream press admits when a murderer went to public schools.
So a homeschooler killed someone? How many public school "graduates" are sittling in our jails or killed someone? A million.
Ahhh! They're on to us!
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Contrast this story to Washington DC, where some murders aren't even covered in the news - or they get at most a minute or two on tv - because they're so prevalent.
The home schooling aspect of this murder case was newsworthy, mostly because of its unusualness.
If reported as an exceptional case - "Man bites dog" - that's reasonable. If reported as a nascent trend, or as being caused by homeschooling, that's an outrage.
Truly bizarre logic.
The children excel (or not) in academic conpetitions BECAUSE of they way they were schooled.
This murder was not committed BECAUSE the kid was homeschooled.
You've got those who are actually schooled at home by parents....and you've got those who have been suspended for being problem children, and are therefore at home - and they are still called homeschooled.
Both get the homeschool label but only one deserves it. Which type were these perps?
Oh, I'm torn on this. I agree with Brent Baker that the homeschooling aspect was part of the headline mainly out of bias against homeschooling. At the same time I think that it belongs as part of the story. Homeschooling doesn't produce saints. Each school is different and should be judged on its own merits, as should each student and teacher in any other educational system.
Pointing out that he was home schooled seeks to tie that fact to the fact he is charged with murder.
If he read "Treasure Island" and "Kidnapped" last week would it be appropriate in every news account to describe him as a desciple of Robert Louis Stevenson?
"If homeschooling families want to draw attention to their lifestyle and education methods when their children excel -- as in academic competitions -- they've got to accept that they will draw unwanted scrutiny when one of their own does something horrible."
Why? Public schooling families don't accept any responsibility when one of their own commit a heinous crime.. or hint that public school had anything to do with it, even though the ratio of public schooled murderers vs homeschooled murderers is overwhelming.
Some kids are homeschooled because they are kicked out of other schools and are problem children anywhere they are. Don't know if that is the case here.
Thought this might interest you.
I would be interested in knowing the kids other habits, like violent video games, music, movies, etc. He didn't get this from his Christian upbringing. What was the source?
IMHO ----Doesn't make a difference which way a child is schooled (Home or Public) because if a person has this type of rage, it wouldn't matter how he was educated. Neither a school nor the parent taught this 18 year old to murder.It could happen and does happen in both educational atmospheres.
I haven't seen anything other than a kind of off-hand comment that the kids were homeschooled. I didn't think anything more of it than I would have if they'd said "So and so, who attends such and such high school, was captured with the girl that also attend such and such high school."
Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't see it as anything more than the news reporting where they went to school. They didn't go to any local high school...they were homeschooled. If they'd gone to a local high school, I suspect it would've been mentioned. Maybe even interviewed some of their fellow high school students.
If the perp in this case were Muslim, the only place you would learn that would be here on FR and similar websites.
Very good point. And the meat of the article IMHO. Thanks for the ping Fawnn!!
Of course, that would reflect badly on those august anti-American, Leftist institutions, now wouldn't it?
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