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It is common for parents to call 'homeschooling' what they do with a troubled child/expelled child when they've had it up to their gills will problems with the child and simply take him/her out of school. That is not home schooling.
This was an identified, troubled kid who should have been in a facility of some kind.
Initial reports I heard on Fox yesterday were identifying this kid as “homeschooled”.
It is common for parents to call ‘homeschooling’ what they do with a troubled child/expelled child when they’ve had it up to their gills will problems with the child and simply take him/her out of school. That is not home schooling.
This was an identified, troubled kid who should have been in a facility of some kind.
While I understand proscriptions against IDing the kid, notice there is NO INFO about the parents. Zip. Nada. No names, no photos, nothing.
It disgusts me how they try to smear homeschoolers for stuff like this.
He is a product of the public education system.
When THEY kicked him out, what choice did the parents have?
So what if they were *homeschooling* him?
You are correct. This is one reason why homeschooling is getting a bad rap in the last several years and why homeschooling test scores are being brought lower.
Disturbed kids are getting kicked out of public school and not much is done about bettering the individual’s situation.
Life in 2016...
I am a retired teacher and with the few cases I recall of students being expelled, the school was required to find the student an alternative school (at the schools expense).
It’s not that easy. We’ve tried for years to get our 2 adopted foster kids into an institution. Our boy acted similarly to this kid but never any weapons, but multiple threats of violence and our daughter was the biggest thief in school. Both had a team of behavioral counselors and psychiatrists.
The bottom line is the kids have to actually cause bodily harm to themselves or others and even then you’re lucky if tgey have a facility that has an available bed.
One of the (un)intended consequences of zero tolerance. Had a relative bring his backpack with hunting knife in the trunk of his car because he was going hunting with dad after school. Permanent expulsion. He homeschooled because there were no options. Now he’s an E7 running the power plant on a nuke sub.
A kid would have to be pretty bad seed to be expelled from a home school. :-0
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So much for zero tolerance and gun free zones. Liberals never learn. I for one will never let my kids go to a public school. I plan to homeschool them and send them to parochial school.
This whole report is BS. Troubled kids usually either wind up in special schools or military school. Homeschool kids are parents who’ve had it with their kids failing and getting beat up by the future career welfare vermin.
Exactly. He was not homeschooling; he was expelled. Should have been in a Military School or something. Left to the parents when they are already out of control? Not good. Wasn’t that kid who shot up an Elementary School also ‘homeschooled’ bc he was a problem? Mom was part of that problem too.