[Diva]

Actually, this was a *homeschool-minded DAD* and a *PUBLIC-SCHOOL-minded* mom.

This was not a happy home. Why would she shoot the children if her argument was with the husband? Sounds like she wanted her children out of her life, they were inconvenient and causing problems between her and her man.

I've been a homeschooling mom since 1990 and in most of the homeschooling families I know it is the mother who is pro-homeschooling and the father who worries about it.

[Tired of Taxes]

most of the homeschooling families I know it is the mother who is pro-homeschooling and the father who worries about it.

Same here. That's why I never understood the stereotype that homeschoolers are oppressed women under their husbands' thumbs. I don't know one homeschooling mom who doesn't want to be a homeschooler. In most cases, we were the ones pushing for it, while our husbands had some serious questions.

[ArGee]

This was not a happy home.

I think the clue to this story lies in the ages of the children who were shot and the ages of the children who were not.

I've heard of stair-step families, but this first step is a lulu!

Shalom.

[glory]

Diva,
agreed...definitely more problems than we know. I think your argument has creedence and would explain why she didn't attack the husband.

[MarthaNOStewart]

I DON'T believe the shooting had anything to do with/or not homeschooling. The woman could be having actual physical or mental problems that caused her to go over the edge. The husband should have been getting her help from a doctor...There are illnesses that create problems and maybe she needed medical attention instead of homeschooling her children and she "went crazy" from being undiagnosed. It is terrible what she did, and suicide would have been better than murdering her children, but I don't think she knew what she was doing at actual time of shooting. She stopped homeschooling for a reason, WHY?