Lemme change a couple of words, apply it to the story on this thread and see if it rings a bell.
Now if he had gone off the deep end, everyone could point to the fact that he had been in public shool, which was actually a result of his problems not the cause of them. It would paint a very inaccurate, unflattering picture of public schoolers and be used with glee by those who wish to bash it.
Hmmmm.
Sorry, don't buy it. Having been a target of harassment through much of my school years, they caused me far more grief than anything my family threw at me.
The shooters at Colombine actually ran across kids they knew before the shootings and warned them to stay away from the campus. It sounds like the way they were treated at the school had a big impact on their behavior.
Many of the other kids who did shootings were outcasts or social misfits. In these cases, their *socialization* is what pushed them over the edge.
For the numbers of kids involved in school shootings at the public school level and the homeschool level, those misfit homeschoolers have a better track record. If being improperly socialized from being homeschooled were the issue or cause, then you could expect homoeschoolers to be far more disproportionately represented in going off the deep end and it's not happening. The facts do not bear that out.
Kids can be pretty ruthless (think Lord of the Flies) without proper adult supervision and that just is not feasible in the system as it exists today. It's simply a practical matter; not all the kids can be watched all the time, and they shouldn't be.