Well I guess this is my initiation then...lol. 
...although I think I'll sit out on that part of the debate and watch lol.
Posted on 08/27/2002 5:47:49 AM PDT by CholeraJoe
Augusta kids killed
By CAROLYNN BRIGHT, IR Staff Writer - 08/27/02
Swanson faces 2 counts of murder.
A 46-year-old Augusta mother allegedly shot and killed two of her four children as they slept in their beds at the family ranch about 15 miles southwest of Augusta early Monday.
Jeanette Swanson faces two counts of deliberate homicide in connection with the shootings and is being held in the Lewis and Clark County Jail without bond.
Swanson was placed on suicide watch at the jail Monday afternoon while the bodies of her children — a 10-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy — were brought to the State Crime Lab in Missoula, where an autopsy will be conducted, said Undersheriff Cheryl Liedle.
According to Liedle, emergency responders flocked to the Swanson Ranch just before 6 a.m. after Swanson called 911, reporting that she had shot her two children.
Swanson’s other two children — boys, ages 16 and 20 — were in the house at the time of the killing, but were unharmed in the incident.
Swanson’s husband, Gene, was sleeping in a camp trailer outside the residence when the shootings occurred, Liedle said.
According to reports, Swanson was waiting at the door of the residence when emergency crews arrived.
Her children were located in their beds inside — both were dead at the scene, Liedle said.
Liedle said a firearm believed to have been used in the shootings was recovered at the family home, but officials will await the results of the autopsies to determine whether it was, in fact, the murder weapon.
Court documents indicate that Swanson’s 20-year-old son reported to authorities that his mother had a .38 Smith and Wesson gun in her possession when she placed the 911 call, but Liedle would not confirm whether that was the same make of gun seized at the scene.
Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Sam McCormack said Monday morning that a motive for the killings was sketchy.
However, he said that Swanson and her husband had argued last week about Swanson’s decision to enroll the two children in school in Augusta — Gene Swanson wanted his wife to continue to home school the kids on the ranch while she wanted them to attend public school.
The children attended their first classes at school in Augusta last week.
there you go with another one of those zingers, why. lol!
Well I guess this is my initiation then...lol. ...although I think I'll sit out on that part of the debate and watch lol.
Have you ever heard of tenure?
Well there ya go
I would say that it is coincidence. I have taught SS for years and have not experienced that at all. I can also speak for my own children who are NEVER a discipline problem. And I'm sure they aren't because I constantly check up on my kids and they know that if they cause ANY problems, they are OUT of that class. I had to do it once with one of my three boys and he straightened out quite nicely after that. (At the tender age of five, he was so girl crazy that he was stalking them druing class--driving them nuts. I told him he couldn't talk to, touch, sit near or even LOOK at a girl or he'd be out of the class forever. He's now nine years old and I haven't had a problem since. However, I do expect the girl thing to kick in again in a few years :-> )
Well, you shouldn't. If you do some research (I'll provide links to some, if you'd like), you'll find that the education of the parent has nothing at all to do with the success of the homeschool. It's pretty obvious that all the training that public school teachers have hasn't given the nation's children quality education.
You can provide that, if you're really concerned about it. Socialization doesn't have to take place only in a classroom. You can find all the diversity or whatever you want in many other places. You can also discipline your children. As a matter of fact, you have full control over all of that. Your children can be homeschooled and not turn out like the ones in your SS class.
Unfortunately, it's still being tossed around...even on the Free Republic, sad to say.
whatayamean?! LOL...sure thing, chickee.
Mega void in socialization? Wow...
You don't know about the wonderful homeschool lifestyle then. We don't sit in caves with our offspring, shielding their eyes from sun and people. LOL...what a joke!
Maybe it's a blessing cuz you've no idea where his hand has been...ya know?
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