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JAMES TARANTO defends homeschoolers in The Wall Street Journal. As he points out the attack on homeschoolers in The New York Times looks even more fishy due to this.
The report goes on to concede that "for sure, the fact that Ms. Jacks's children last attended school in March in no way accounts for their deaths." The home-schooling link looks even more tenuous when you look at the Washington Post account of the case. On Sunday, the Post reports, Mayor Adrian Fenty fired six child-welfare workers, saying they "just didn't do their job." It turns out that the girls' absence from school was noted at the time:
Also Ms Jacks never filled out the notice to homeschool required of public school parents withdrawing their children from public school. School officials elected to take the Godmothers word that Ms. Jacks was homeschooling. No attempt to confirm this allegation was ever made by the school.
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Home-schooling link tenuous
JAMES TARANTO defends homeschoolers in The Wall Street Journal. As he points out the attack on homeschoolers in The New York Times looks even more fishy due to this.
The report goes on to concede that "for sure, the fact that Ms. Jacks's children last attended school in March in no way accounts for their deaths." The home-schooling link looks even more tenuous when you look at the Washington Post account of the case. On Sunday, the Post reports, Mayor Adrian Fenty fired six child-welfare workers, saying they "just didn't do their job." It turns out that the girls' absence from school was noted at the time:
Also Ms Jacks never filled out the notice to homeschool required of public school parents withdrawing their children from public school. School officials elected to take the Godmothers word that Ms. Jacks was homeschooling. No attempt to confirm this allegation was ever made by the school.
- Substance Abuse, Mental Illness, Homelessness And The Failure Of The Child Welfare Agency To Follow Up On Reports Of Abuse Lead To These Girls Death.
At least six child welfare workers will be fired for failing to properly address complaints about a woman's care for her four daughters, who were later found dead in their home, the mayor said Monday. So at least six child welfare workers didn't...
- Homeschooling Wasn't The Problem And Tougher Homeschool Regulations Are Not The Answer.
Tragically Ms Jacks murdered her four daughters. Irrationally the New York Times has chosen to blame it on Homeschooling, Lack of Supervision Noted in Deaths of Home-Schooled. Other papers who are less biased against homeschooling are honest enough to...
- Aelfric Worries About Socialization Of Homeschoolers
Aelfric says I am all for the right of a parent to home-school his or her child, but it's a choice to be carefully undertaken. Few parents can bring the intellectual diversity and educational acumen to bear that the panoply of school teachers could...
- Why So Many Homeschoolers Join H$lda
Ignorance is a terrible thing, but when so many public school officials display ignorance not only for homeschooling but the laws of their state it's terrifying. Mrs. Mund sent a written notice to her granddaughter’s public school that her granddaughter...
- From The Blogosphere
Let's be clear public school at home isn't the same as homeschooling. If people choose to do public school at home that's fine and dandy, but they are not homeschoolers. I can only wonder if Bounds desire to scrutinize homeschoolers is due...