A couple times a year there will be a kid or a couple kids in the news who do something awful, who happen to be homeschool. Homeschool critics will jump up and down claiming that homeschooling by its very nature produces evil children and so it should not be allowed. Well if allowed, it should be heavily monitored and regulated.
By that logic public schools should be shut down after an incident like this: Girl-On-Girl Fight Trend Growing Online. A girl was lured to a house and then beaten by six girls for 30 minutes, while two boys stood outside as lookouts. The report says the assailants showed no remorse. In fact one of the girls "asked if she would be able to make it to cheerleading practice the next day..."
The beaten girl can no longer see well out of one eye or hear very well from one of her ears. I can't image what it would be like to be beaten for thirty minutes. I am afraid she will be suffering for years, both physically and emotionally. She'll have trouble trusting people. She'll be fearful of noises and strangers.
To an extent public schools do foster badly behaved children, but the real blame for events like this should be placed squarely on the parents, and the teenagers themselves. In a just society the six girls would be in jail for years.
(Hat tip: The Education Wonks)
Dr. Helen has more in See Jane Hit.
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