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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Colorado gunman homeschooled
I hate to post bad news. But you should know much of the media is making this an issue. Whenever anything horrific like this happens, people grope for reasons why this person isn't normal. But mental illness can affect any family, regardless of upbringing.
Unfortunately, two of his victims were also homeschooled.
Swanson said home schooling should not be considered the cause of Murray‘s downward spiral, just as public schools shouldn‘t be blamed for a recent shooting rampage at an Omaha mall. Read more...
Labels: Colorado, homeschool, media
Saturday, June 09, 2007
No place like home: For educating your kids, that is
On May 31, Evan O’Dorney, 13, from Danville, Calif., won the Scripps National Spelling Bee held every year in Washington, D.C. But that’s not the real news, part of which is that O’Dorney is home-schooled. The other part is that he’s the third home-schooled winner of the Bee in the past six years.
To put that in perspective, you need to know that there are about 2 million home-schooled children in the country, which represents about 3 percent of the school age population. Yet home-schooled children represent some 15 percent of the finalists in the Spelling Bee, and about the same percentage in the national geography contest for like-aged children. Read more...
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