Homeless/homeschooled teen/SAT
Annette Yunker
The following link contains more info about Trevor Loflin and why his mom the Dr. There's also more information about his homelessness.
http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,255007,00.html
Annette
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http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,255007,00.html
Annette
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Lynda
O.K., here's curiosity question No. 2. As someone who knows what it takes
to loose a medical license, and believe me nothing short of charges of
sexual abuse or attempted murder gets those things yanked, if this person's
son was not a homeschooler, what would everyone think of her expectations
for folks to support her. And let's do the math here, how many folks do you
know that don't work that can afford several computers and still pay the
rent on a house, particularly in CA. So unless the hubby sent the
computers, it isn't child support buying them because women on AFDC or
whatever they call it now only get the first $50 and then the amount over
the assistance amount (including food stamps).
Oh, btw, in CA at least, if you are physically able, you don't get to stay
home full-time with the kids. You are required to go to seminars, attend
classes and actively seek employment. And you get two years. When the two
years run out, you are off the aid.
So something just doesn't ring right with this whole story. Besides which
it is bad press for homeschooling.
Lynda
to loose a medical license, and believe me nothing short of charges of
sexual abuse or attempted murder gets those things yanked, if this person's
son was not a homeschooler, what would everyone think of her expectations
for folks to support her. And let's do the math here, how many folks do you
know that don't work that can afford several computers and still pay the
rent on a house, particularly in CA. So unless the hubby sent the
computers, it isn't child support buying them because women on AFDC or
whatever they call it now only get the first $50 and then the amount over
the assistance amount (including food stamps).
Oh, btw, in CA at least, if you are physically able, you don't get to stay
home full-time with the kids. You are required to go to seminars, attend
classes and actively seek employment. And you get two years. When the two
years run out, you are off the aid.
So something just doesn't ring right with this whole story. Besides which
it is bad press for homeschooling.
Lynda
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From: "Annette Yunker" <amyunker@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:49 AM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Homeless/homeschooled teen/SAT
> The following link contains more info about Trevor Loflin and why his mom
the Dr. There's also more information about his homelessness.
>
> http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,255007,00.html
>
> Annette
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[email protected]
Thank you for sending the link. Besides the boy, there is a 16 yr old
girl and an 8 yr old girl. The boys father lives in Texas. The boy was
not homeschooled his entire life. It doesn't say how long the parents
were divorced.
From the article:
"Before moving to Sonora two years ago, Trevor had attended 13 different
public schools in 13 years from Austin, Texas, where his father still
lives, to Grass Valley.
"Hamilton is a divorced pediatrician who lost her license, she said,
because she ran out of the patience and finances required to fight
"ridiculous, false accusations." Before the license was pulled, she tried
running a private practice that failed and then for several years she was
unable to find any work."
On the surface, it seems that a parent should be willing to do just about
anything to keep her children from being homeless. I like to think that
I would, but who can ever say what the details of life will bring to us?
I am just bothered by the idea that this mother should have been
working, rather than being with her kids, because she had once had a high
paying job.
And, I think the father should be ashamed of himself that his children
ended up homeless. Maybe he should have been working two jobs and
sending the extra money to his kids! Why should any children end up
homeless? The circumstances were certainly not their fault.
I am reading "The Price of Motherhood" , by Ann Crittenden. While I
don't agree with everything she says, she makes some excellent points
about the fact that our society does not value motherhood as a career.
We (as a society - I am not referring to any specific individual) tend to
view it more as volunteer work that women do by choice. The chapters on
divorce and it's effects on women and children are very thought-provoking
and downright scary.
Mary Ellen
In the huge rush to build shopping malls and banks,
no one is thinking about where kids can play.
That doesn't generate tax revenue.
<snip>>>>>>>>>The following link contains more info about Trevor Loflin
and why his mom the Dr. There's also more information about his
homelessness.
http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,255007,00.html
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
girl and an 8 yr old girl. The boys father lives in Texas. The boy was
not homeschooled his entire life. It doesn't say how long the parents
were divorced.
From the article:
"Before moving to Sonora two years ago, Trevor had attended 13 different
public schools in 13 years from Austin, Texas, where his father still
lives, to Grass Valley.
"Hamilton is a divorced pediatrician who lost her license, she said,
because she ran out of the patience and finances required to fight
"ridiculous, false accusations." Before the license was pulled, she tried
running a private practice that failed and then for several years she was
unable to find any work."
On the surface, it seems that a parent should be willing to do just about
anything to keep her children from being homeless. I like to think that
I would, but who can ever say what the details of life will bring to us?
I am just bothered by the idea that this mother should have been
working, rather than being with her kids, because she had once had a high
paying job.
And, I think the father should be ashamed of himself that his children
ended up homeless. Maybe he should have been working two jobs and
sending the extra money to his kids! Why should any children end up
homeless? The circumstances were certainly not their fault.
I am reading "The Price of Motherhood" , by Ann Crittenden. While I
don't agree with everything she says, she makes some excellent points
about the fact that our society does not value motherhood as a career.
We (as a society - I am not referring to any specific individual) tend to
view it more as volunteer work that women do by choice. The chapters on
divorce and it's effects on women and children are very thought-provoking
and downright scary.
Mary Ellen
In the huge rush to build shopping malls and banks,
no one is thinking about where kids can play.
That doesn't generate tax revenue.
<snip>>>>>>>>>The following link contains more info about Trevor Loflin
and why his mom the Dr. There's also more information about his
homelessness.
http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,255007,00.html
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Eileen M.
I'm sorry to be harsh, but I agree here... the loss of
a medical license takes more than 'ridiculous' charges
by a long shot. More importantly, although
homeschooling is a wonderful and beneficial thing, I
find it offensive that a person with her education is
asking a person like my husband to pay for her to
homeschool her kids... *he* works two full time jobs
to limp us along on a shoestring, because he doesn't
have the advantages that she had. She has an
education that would allow her a decent job (even
without the license) with which to decently house and
clothe and feed her kids *and* allow her to homeschool
them when she was home. Something is very hinky
here...
Eileen
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a medical license takes more than 'ridiculous' charges
by a long shot. More importantly, although
homeschooling is a wonderful and beneficial thing, I
find it offensive that a person with her education is
asking a person like my husband to pay for her to
homeschool her kids... *he* works two full time jobs
to limp us along on a shoestring, because he doesn't
have the advantages that she had. She has an
education that would allow her a decent job (even
without the license) with which to decently house and
clothe and feed her kids *and* allow her to homeschool
them when she was home. Something is very hinky
here...
Eileen
--- Lynda <lurine@...> wrote:
> O.K., here's curiosity question No. 2. As someonehttp://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,255007,00.html
> who knows what it takes
> to loose a medical license, and believe me nothing
> short of charges of
> sexual abuse or attempted murder gets those things
> yanked, if this person's
> son was not a homeschooler, what would everyone
> think of her expectations
> for folks to support her. And let's do the math
> here, how many folks do you
> know that don't work that can afford several
> computers and still pay the
> rent on a house, particularly in CA. So unless the
> hubby sent the
> computers, it isn't child support buying them
> because women on AFDC or
> whatever they call it now only get the first $50 and
> then the amount over
> the assistance amount (including food stamps).
>
> Oh, btw, in CA at least, if you are physically able,
> you don't get to stay
> home full-time with the kids. You are required to
> go to seminars, attend
> classes and actively seek employment. And you get
> two years. When the two
> years run out, you are off the aid.
>
> So something just doesn't ring right with this whole
> story. Besides which
> it is bad press for homeschooling.
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Annette Yunker" <amyunker@...>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:49 AM
> Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Homeless/homeschooled
> teen/SAT
>
>
> > The following link contains more info about Trevor
> Loflin and why his mom
> the Dr. There's also more information about his
> homelessness.
> >
> >
>
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kate mcdaniel
I agree. My husband works full time and so do I. I work in a grocery
store. I am sympathetic to those who "I" feel truly need assistance. It
amazes me how many adults( I use this term loosely, since alot are teenaged
mothers and fathers) on assistance use their allotments to get cash and then
spend it on alcohol and cigarettes. I know I am probably bias in this area.
I was a single mom and no one assisted me. It was my decision to raise my
child and I intended to do so. I do sympathize with those parents with
children with special needs, special diets and high cost foods. What amazes
me the most is the amount of grandparents that have to raise their
grandchildren because their child wasn't responsible enough to do so.
I find the homeschool story a little unsettling. I don't want the state to
support me when I choose not to work. They may feel the need to control
other areas of my life.
Kate
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store. I am sympathetic to those who "I" feel truly need assistance. It
amazes me how many adults( I use this term loosely, since alot are teenaged
mothers and fathers) on assistance use their allotments to get cash and then
spend it on alcohol and cigarettes. I know I am probably bias in this area.
I was a single mom and no one assisted me. It was my decision to raise my
child and I intended to do so. I do sympathize with those parents with
children with special needs, special diets and high cost foods. What amazes
me the most is the amount of grandparents that have to raise their
grandchildren because their child wasn't responsible enough to do so.
I find the homeschool story a little unsettling. I don't want the state to
support me when I choose not to work. They may feel the need to control
other areas of my life.
Kate
On Fri, 11 May 2001 19:55:05 -0700 (PDT), [email protected]
wrote:
> I'm sorry to be harsh, but I agree here... the loss of_______________________________________________________
> a medical license takes more than 'ridiculous' charges
> by a long shot. More importantly, although
> homeschooling is a wonderful and beneficial thing, I
> find it offensive that a person with her education is
> asking a person like my husband to pay for her to
> homeschool her kids... *he* works two full time jobs
> to limp us along on a shoestring, because he doesn't
> have the advantages that she had. She has an
> education that would allow her a decent job (even
> without the license) with which to decently house and
> clothe and feed her kids *and* allow her to homeschool
> them when she was home. Something is very hinky
> here...
>
> Eileen
>
>
> --- Lynda <lurine@...> wrote:
> > O.K., here's curiosity question No. 2. As someone
> > who knows what it takes
> > to loose a medical license, and believe me nothing
> > short of charges of
> > sexual abuse or attempted murder gets those things
> > yanked, if this person's
> > son was not a homeschooler, what would everyone
> > think of her expectations
> > for folks to support her. And let's do the math
> > here, how many folks do you
> > know that don't work that can afford several
> > computers and still pay the
> > rent on a house, particularly in CA. So unless the
> > hubby sent the
> > computers, it isn't child support buying them
> > because women on AFDC or
> > whatever they call it now only get the first $50 and
> > then the amount over
> > the assistance amount (including food stamps).
> >
> > Oh, btw, in CA at least, if you are physically able,
> > you don't get to stay
> > home full-time with the kids. You are required to
> > go to seminars, attend
> > classes and actively seek employment. And you get
> > two years. When the two
> > years run out, you are off the aid.
> >
> > So something just doesn't ring right with this whole
> > story. Besides which
> > it is bad press for homeschooling.
> >
> > Lynda
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Annette Yunker" <amyunker@...>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:49 AM
> > Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Homeless/homeschooled
> > teen/SAT
> >
> >
> > > The following link contains more info about Trevor
> > Loflin and why his mom
> > the Dr. There's also more information about his
> > homelessness.
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,255007,00.html
> > >
> > > Annette
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> > removed]
> > >
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