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Augusta kids killed (Another Homeschool Killing)
Helena Independent Record ^
| 8/27/2002
| CAROLYNN BRIGHT
Posted on 08/27/2002 5:47:49 AM PDT by CholeraJoe
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To: mikhailovich
Your "aloof" example was a weak attempt to shoot below the belt. No, like you, I was only stating my "observations". Those children really did behave like they never received much attention. I don't know why you think I'm hitting "below the belt" with my comments, yet you claim your comments are simply "nonjudgmental". BTW, I'm not "irritated". Just trying to make a point. Hope you get it this time.
To: mikhailovich; Tired of Taxes
IMHO It boils down to parenting skills, not if someone stays at home or works... I have seen examples that have given support to both sides of this debate. But yes sometimes it's hard to ignore what seems to be a pattern when you do notice that certain kids act worse than others more than a few times...
To: Michael Maher
I don't agree with it either. Home-schooled children are DENIED much. Drills, such as being called to the front of the class before one's peers to answer a question and write down the answer for all to read.....are huge. These things cannot be simulated on a sofa with a kitty cat rubbing on your feet and a nearby parent who you know will break - if you bend hard enough. Responding positively to people you don't necessarily like or feel comfortable with is another thing they miss -- a harsh teacher, learning to overcome fears, and achieve despite them. Working up a frog in biology lab, collaborating on the trumpet with 7 other schoolmates, preparing to join in with the woodwinds. The list goes on and on.
To: CholeraJoe
Please do.. These cases/threads tend to get very charged. Everyone has set opinions most of the time. I wouldn't mind following it, even if I don't really agree with your opinion per say. :)
To: mikhailovich
So there are no "cons" to public school?
To: Argh
And just exactly what were you looking at? lol
To: CholeraJoe
Of course this one happened in Montana where wacko is a way of life...That was my thought when I read it. Montana's "Big Sky Country" seems to be the perfect place for whack-jobs to "get away from it all." And in so doing, I think their isolation puts them right over the edge close to which they were living all along.
How sad for the children. What a whacked-out world we're living in now.
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08/27/2002 1:32:10 PM PDT
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Illbay
To: KineticKitty
IMHO It boils down to parenting skills, not if someone stays at home or works...I agree 100%. I was a working mother myself up to a year and a half ago, though we avoided daycare by working split shifts. However, the other poster claimed first that SHM's children are ill-behaved. By making the opposite claim with my own observations, I was just trying to point out to him how his generalization is, indeed, "judgmental". And, if he can dish it out, he should be able to take it. That's all.
To: COBOL2Java
You have it back'ards. In fact, the very strange types who are all on fire to isolate themselves and their families like this, who fear "contamination" with the outside world, and hole up with guns and their twisted paranoia, are naturally going to "home school" their children.
IOW, not all homeschoolers are whack, but nearly all such whackos are going to be homeschoolers.
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08/27/2002 1:34:47 PM PDT
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Illbay
To: iconoclast; glory; homeschool mama; xsmommy
Whew! Is the coast clear yet?
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08/27/2002 1:34:50 PM PDT
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TxBec
To: Illbay
I think their isolation puts them right over the edge close to which they were living all along.Ever since I moved here, I see wacko every day. When a nut job makes national news, odds are good they're from Montana.
To: Tired of Taxes
A 2-year old who seems aloof and indifferent toward strangers......is not that uncommon. Some 2 year-olds can be handed from one person to the next without a whimper, regardless of the working/stay-home status of their parent(s). By age 4, generally things change. Thus, your analogy is weak. Try again. And as Bill O'Reilly says, "you get the last word."
BTW, if you worked, you'd be even more "tired of taxes"....sorry, I couldn't resist.
To: hobbes1
Teachers make roughly 50 Grand a year,...Hey, PLEASE let me know where that happens! My wife is a teacher and doesn't make NEAR that much!
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08/27/2002 1:38:03 PM PDT
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Illbay
To: mikhailovich
"I couldn't resist." What? a cheap shot?
To: KineticKitty
There are many "cons" to public schools. I would be all for home schooling, were it not for the MEGA VOID in socialization during those critical years.
To: KineticKitty
What? A cheap shot?
Dish, counter-dish, dish, counter-dish.
(Or something like that!)
To: mikhailovich
When I was working graveyard shift and weekends, then catching three hours' sleep before waking to care for the kids everyday, I WAS very tired of taxes. We cannot manage that schedule with three kids, though, and, even if we wanted to put them in daycare, we could never afford it. So, I'm not trying to criticize working moms. I don't care how anyone else decides to raise their children, as long as (1) they're good to them and (2) the rest of us don't have to foot the bill.
A 2-year old who seems aloof and indifferent toward strangers......is not that uncommon. Some 2 year-olds can be handed from one person to the next without a whimper, regardless of the working/stay-home status of their parent(s).
Not the ones I know. Gotta go.
To: KineticKitty
......plus, my name, by itself generally gets people riled up....go figure.
To: Tired of Taxes
Hey, nice chatting with you. You're one sharp tack, in all honesty! Cheers, and I agree with your last post.
To: Tired of Taxes
.....(that was to #1 and #2)......
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