Not a good article for the home schoolers and self sufficient

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link: www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpnt04.htm

It will be interesting to see if the news media makes these people out to be some kind of right wing whakos.

-- Lucy (lifeisgoodhere@webtv.net), February 15, 2000

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HOTLINK

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), February 15, 2000.

Thanks for the hot link!

-- Lucy (lifeisgoodhere@webtv.net), February 15, 2000.

Why is is significant to the story that they homeschool? In every other story like this I've heard they never said "the children attended John Q. Public Elementary School". What are they going after? Is this the first homeschooling dad to do this? Prob'ly. How many dads(and moms) kill their children each year? Too many. Sickening that they would propagandize these deaths.

-- Just Curious (jnmpow@flash.net), February 15, 2000.

Sorry, that's "Why is it..."

-- Just Curious (jnmpow@flash.net), February 15, 2000.

What a sad tale. Something went terribly, terribly wrong.

-- Lurkess (Lurkess@Lurking.XNet), February 15, 2000.


Home schooling, public schooling, or no schooling at all -- it's completely irrelevant to this story.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), February 15, 2000.

isn't it sad. poor kids. i also think home schooling is irrelevant but obviously the newspaper had a purpose in including it. it would also make sense that "social misfits" (you know those who are recluses, anti-this, anti-that) might choose to home school their kids and keep them away from the public just as they would choose to be away from the public. so people homeschool for lots of reasons. too bad for these kids--because if they had been in the public eye, maybe their plight would have been noticed a bit?

-- tt (cuddluppy@aol.com), February 15, 2000.

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