I dont care if they were homeschooled, public schooled, or private schooled...there are obviously disturbed/evil(however you want to categorize this young man), youngsters, in whatever venue they are being educated...
No one should ever believe that all the kids in a particular educational environment are the same...they all come from different family situations, whose familes may have differing ethical and moral views...and all kids are different, handling their hormones and the 'love' lives in different ways...
Actually, one of the points about them being home-schooled, was this was how these two met...at a function that was arranged by a group of home-schooling parents...
Tho I have never homeschooled, I have admiration for those who do...my children went to private and public schools, many years ago..if I were educating little ones today, I might consider homeschooling...
I just dont see it, as others might, that it was so unfair to mention that they were homeschooled...whenever anything bad happens in public school, the public schools are always chastized on FR...just because a youngster goes to public school, that does not necessarily mean he is bad...just because a youngster is homeschooled, that does not necessarily mean he is good...
All public schools, all private schools, all homeschools, have their share of bad kids and good kids...that should go without saying...
Yeah, like what happened near Littleton, Colorado...you NEVER heard them mention that it was at Columbine High School, did you? ;-)
I agree. See post #44
Very good and logical post.
In the past three months, we have had three incidents like this. There was that adopted boy in the Midwest and his friend who shot the boy's parents and killed them i cold blood. They attended a private Lutheran school.
Then there was the kid in California who brutally murdered the lawyer's wife. He was a public school kid.
Now this. The boy happens to be a homeschooler.
There are good kids and bad kids in all religions and all environments.
What we need to address is the immediate resort to violence in these yopung people. Get to the cause of it and try to work from there.
The internet was heavily used by all these murderous teens. All of them had "Goth" leanings.
As a homeschool mom, I agree. The article wasn't slanted against homeschooling, just stating a fact.
However, you have to understand why we tend to jump whenever it is mentioned. We're under a microscope. (In fact, I know a homeschool mom who uses that word whenever her children are misbehaving in public. She just looks at them and says, "Microscope." LOL. That's all she has to say because they know that, as homeschoolers, they're under one).
Also, whenever a horrible crime is committed by a homeschool parent or student, homeschooling becomes the main issue. There are calls for more legislation. And we have to deal with even more funny looks and stupid comments from other people.
To the contrary, when a public school teacher or student commits a crime, legislators don't consider shutting down the schools. Many schools (like our local schools) are riddled with drugs. If homeschool homes were riddled with drugs, there'd be calls for all of homeschooling to be shut down.
So, that's why we jump at the mention. But your post is right - this article is not slanted against it.