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Friday, September 29, 2006
Principal Shot At Wisconsin School An Associated Press report published in Forbes notes that this was, again, a rural school. CBS News is reporting that the shooter is in custody. Unbelievable. Yet another reason to homeschool. Other parents not raising their children with even the most rudimentary respect for life... Properly raised, well-adjusted children do not behave like this. Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Sharon Secor at 9:55 AM |
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6 Comments:
Are you joking me? Someone has been shot and all you can think about is why it's another reason to homeschool. Talk about narrow-mindedness. Did you even spend half a second thinking about the family members of this principal? I do apologize for the condescending tone of this post, but these types of generalizations infuriate me. Oh wait, maybe that's because I'm a mal-adjusted public school kid. I must be a maniac, too. Gag me. Your post is another reason NOT to homeschool.
Homeschoolers Murder Also:
Before the first ad break on Monday's World News Tonight, ABC anchor Elizabeth Vargas plugged an upcoming story: "When we return, the home school student charged with murdering his girlfriend's parents. A small town, and a community of home-schoolers, are shattered." ABC reporter Nancy Weiner, in the subsequent story about how 18-year-old David Ludwig allegedly murdered the parents of his 14-year-old girlfriend, Kara Borden, and then fled with her from Pennsylvania to Indiana where he was arrested, outlined the home-schooling connection: “The Bordens, devout Christians, home-schooled all five of their children. Kara and David met through a group of home-schoolers.” Weiner portrayed the murders as ironic: “Many parents choose to home school their children to have more control over their upbringing and avoid exactly what happened here."
from: http://newsbusters.org/node/2822
Your comments are no better than reporter Vargas. Being homeschooled or not does not make someone more likely to murder. I know some homeschooled children who are social misfits and some who are very well adjusted.
That last paragraph is totally irrelevant. You can't be billed as a straight-news source if your opinion spills out so easily. Not that opinion is bad... just bill it as an editorial and not news. You do know the difference, right?
To homeschool, or not to homeschool?
Perhaps Alvin Toffler's comments from "The Third Wave" are appropriate:
"Built on the factory model, mass education taught basic reading, writing and arithmetic, a bit of history and other subjects. This was the 'overt curriculum'. But beneath it lay an invisible or 'covert curriculum' that was far more basic. It consisted--and still does in most industrial nations--of three courses: one in punctuality, one in obedience, and one in rote, repetitive work. Factory labor demanded workers who showed up on time, especially assembly-line hands. It demanded workers who would take orders from a management hierarchy without questioning. And it demanded men and women prepared to slave away at machines or in offices, performing brutally repetitious operations.".
Not to mention that in order for them to be "Properly raised, well-adjusted children" they need to be exposed to a wide variety of people where they can the learn all-important basic social skills they will need to survive in the real world. If they don't learn as children, social interactions as an adult may be akward. People need to be exposed to the negative aspects of school such as bullying, name-calling, maybe even fist-fights, to be able to make it in today's society. More-over, without exposure to a variety non-parental authority figures they're in for a shock when they hit reality and their college professor or boss isn't their Mom.
What parent who watches a child go off to school for the first time doesn't hope or pray that the kid will be safe? Face it--public schools are dangerous places. This may not be most families' #1 motive for educating at home, but surely it enters into the decision-making process. http://members.iquest.net/~macihms/Education/braveschool.html
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