Posted on 01/12/2008 10:50:56 AM PST by don-o
Ten states and the District of Columbia, where Banita M. Jacks was charged on Thursday with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her four daughters, have no regulations regarding home schooling, not even the requirement that families notify the authorities that they are educating their children at home.
The lack of supervision of the home-schooling process, some experts say, may have made it easier last year for Ms. Jacks to withdraw her children from school and the prying eyes of teachers, social workers and other professionals who otherwise might have detected signs of abuse and neglect of the girls.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Only a liberal rag could print a statement like that without giving it a second thought.
I’m waiting to see the corresponding pieces on rapes and murders in the public school system...oh, sorry, those are only written to an eye for “more money needed”.
I didn’t know the purpose of school was to provide prying eyes.
you still have the HS ping list?
Have you just recently arrived in this country? Excuse the sarcasm, but it should be common knowledge that the educational establishment is all about extreme control and indoctrination of the "chirren."
They were her brats
Their argument, that if the kids were in government run schools abuse would be noticed, is ridiculous.
I do not have statistics on this, but I would bet that the percentage of kids who are abused and/or murdered by parents is higher for kids in government run schools then those who are home schooled.
Typical liberal crap, thinking that parents just cannot do anything right and the government must take over your childs life.
Thanks - forgot linkage. I reported myself - if it’s pulled I will repost
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Investigators said that Ms. Jacks denied killing her daughters and claimed they had been possessed by demons.
The above, from a previous NY Times article, suggests that connecting this sad event to home schooling is a logical non sequitur. Ms. Jacks is probably a certifiable nutjob. Kind of makes you wonder if she was home schooling at all, or just letting her kids be truants.
The social worker reported that after speaking to Jacks she appeared to have mental health issues and ''that she was possibly holding Brittany hostage by refusing to allow her to attend school,''
This suggests it wasn't about home schooling at all.
"Homeschooling is bad because it prevents us from monitoring families." This coming from the same people who strongly (and sometimes rightly) condemn the practice of eavesdropping on international phone calls to terrorist suspects. I guess privacy and limited government only matter when there is not a large bureaucracy at stake.
Mods fixed it. Thanks again for catching it
I'll bet that not one of those so-called and unnamed "experts" ever homeschooled a day in his life.
They can take my arrows from my cold dead hands.
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. - John Maynard Keynes
No, I’m not in no ways new (to quote Ms. Clinton). I just thought we were all still pretending that the public schools exist to educate.
Glad we have things out in the open, now. I have five kids that God willing will never be subject to the government surveillance centers.
The ideal societal structure as the designers see it would be full pre-to-post natal assessment, treatment to term and then an immediate transfer of the acceptable candidates for citizenship to a facility where they would receive the optimum developmental training unti the age of breeding.
Then, and only then, would we have the perfect order we, they, long to create.
Until then, we just have to chip away at the stubborn rock(s) one piece at a time.
Not to mention that kids that are abused by public school teachers, employees, and fellow students.
I am not suggesting here that we bash all the employees of the public schools. I am certain most of them don’t want to harm children, and many are FReepers. My point is, some kids are abused by parents and some are abused by teachers and some are abused by other officials/coaches and some are abused by janitors and some are abused by fellow students.
Home schoolers don’t hold a patent on child abuse, and, because there are a lot more adults in supervisory relationships with kids in a public or private school setting, I’d assume there is more child abuse there, as well.
The lack of supervision of the home-schooling process, some experts say,
What experts, and only some, why not all? Because in the eyes of the author, only some of the experts think supervision MAY be an issue. A real stretch.
Then there are the prying eyes as in: the prying eyes of teachers, social workers and other professionals
Prying eyes in many cases primed to remove children from a family before there is adequate proof that such action is necessary.
Another subject for another day, but should bureaucrats have the power to remove children from their home in the first place.
You are obviously a good mother and I wish there were millions more moms just like you.
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