[metmom]

Wintertime - given that the Sandy Hook mass murderer was home schooled and the victims were public school children, perhaps using the massacre for a diatribe about public school security and a “Another Reason to Homeschool” ping is in poor taste...

Adam Lanza, who was 20, is believed by investigators to have attended Sandy Hook Elementary, the site of his massacre on Friday, before being removed and partially home-schooled by his mother.

Trying to paint him as a homeschooler is not entirely accurate either.Looks like his homeschool time was after having attended public school for quite some time.

I know of kids who have been removed from public school as older students because of behavior problems and have had to be homeschooled if their parents wanted them to have an education.

It's disingenuous to portray them as homescooled, implying that it was done for their whole lives, and that that is the reason they went off the deep end.

A child who was homeschooled after having been removed from public school because of behavior problems had the problems before being homeschooled, not because of being homeschooled.

[verga]

A child who was homeschooled after having been removed from public school because of behavior problems had the problems before being homeschooled, not because of being homeschooled.

How many of them had "problems" before any schooling began? What definitive proof is there that Lanza's problems were caused by the school?

[Fletcher J]

Ah, the “no true Scotsman” defense again... :)

If you guys really think that using Sandy Hook is a great lead-in to a pro-homeschooling / anti-public school thread, I hope you aren’t in charge of PR or advertising strategy anywhere. I’m not saying that homeschooling was at fault, I’m saying that it’s really poor “optics”, given that the general public’s perception is that an adult homeschooler murdered tiny public school children.

You claim I was being disingenuous about Adam being a homeschooler, but “not entirely accurate” (your words), is a good synonym for “far from wrong”... ;)

But, I’ll gladly concede that Adam wasn’t really a homeschooler, if you’ll ping your ARtH ping list with your opinion on how many years (or percent) of homeschooling it takes before a kid is a “real” homeschooler, and ask for feedback. Let’s get a thread started!

Once you’ve developed a consensus, you can use that as a determination on whether any given achievement is by a “real” homeschooler, and can therefore be celebrated on a ARtH thread. It’ll require some investigation into each child’s past, but it’s the only way we can all be “entirely accurate”, which is clearly very important.