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January 17, 2008
New York Times Blames Homeschooling for Child-Killer
Posted by Dave Blount at January 17, 2008 10:08 AM
Thanks to having discarded responsible journalism in favor of an anecdotal approach, the New York Times has been able to prove that having served in Iraq or Afghanistan makes veterans into a psychopathic killers, despite the fact that they are far less likely to commit murders than the general population. The rag has applied a similar technique to homeschoolers, by seizing on the case of DC resident Banita Jacks, a deranged urban savage who killed her own children.
The lack of supervision of the home-schooling process, some experts say, may have made it easier last year for Ms. Jacks to withdraw her children from school and the prying eyes of teachers, social workers and other professionals who otherwise might have detected signs of abuse and neglect of the girls.
A Brief History notes that there is no evidence that Jacks' kids were homeschooled, and wonders what the murder rate is among homeschoolers. If it weren't negligible, it would be plastered across the front page of the Times.
Liberals loathe homeschooling because it allows children to escape brainwashing by the moonbatty education establishment. It also might enable minorities to learn their way off the Democrat Party plantation. The Home School Legal Defense Association reports on a study of 5,402 homeschool students:
There was no significant difference between minority and white homeschooled students. For example, in grades K-12, both white and minority students scored, on the average, in the 87th percentile. In math, whites scored in the 82nd percentile while minorities scored in the 77th percentile. In the public schools, however, there is a sharp contrast. White public school eighth grade students, nationally scored the 58th percentile in math and the 57th percentile in reading. Black eighth grade students, on the other hand, scored on the average at the 24th percentile in math and the 28th percentile in reading. Hispanics scored at the 29th percentile in math and the 28th percentile in reading.
On the other hand, public school students are more likely to know how to put a condom on a cucumber.
Hat tip: Dr. Helen, on a tip from V the K.
