Lynda

This comes with a gritted teeth alert!

Lynda
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> Blame home schooling
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> Noah, age 7, is dead! Now the world will never know how great a man he
might have grown up to be. John, age 5, might have been in kindergarten.
He's also dead. Both boys were crowded aside as Paul, age 3 and Luke, age 2,
and infant Mary, age 6 months, arrived. All are death now.
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> Perhaps this tragedy might serve to make us aware that all of us really
are "the keepers of the children." Perhaps by doing the nosy, unpopular
thing, by raising our voices for overwrought mothers and inadequately loved
children, we can save a life.
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> Unlike the case of Andrea Yates' children. Her children, of course, were
home schooled.
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> Over my span of years as a teacher, neither I nor any colleague to my
knowledge, however many degrees and state accreditation and credentials we
may have had, would have considered "home schooling."
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> There are good private schools to augment the public schools. But teach
our own? No way! We were not about to deprive our own children of the
benefits of an education "in the real world."
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> VIOLET MILLER, North Fort Myers